EriLex: An Embedded Domain Specific Language Generator

EriLex is a software tool for generating support code for embedded domain specific languages (EDSLs). It supports specifying syntax, static semantics, and dynamic semantics of an EDSL, mixing the method chaining style and the functional nesting style in the EDSL embedding, and using native types and values in the EDSL. The EH Lex approach to EDSL embedding assumes only basic object-oriented features and generics in the host language and does not require any particular technology in the definition or implementation of host languages and tools. The generated support code allows the EDSLs to reuse not only host language compilers but also host language semantic editors.