Milestone 3

Parsing

• Incremental parsing.
• Parameterized rules. Parameters allow you to avoid duplication of rules. Parameters can be rule type or primitive type (string or int). Example: syntax Tag<Name> = "<" Name Attribute* ">" Content* "</" Name ">";
• Rule local variables.
• Semantic predicates - predicates which operate on Rule parameters and local rules variables. Semantic predicates and parameterized rules allows us to parse identation based grammars and other context-sensitive grammar (like "raw" string literals from C++ 11).

Transformation

• DSL for code generation

Backends

• Design and implement Backends API
• Implement .Net Backend
  • Save metadata and code in format supported by backend
  • Load metadata from format supported by backend
  • Generation of executable images

Semantic analysis (typing)

• Incremental reset and update dependent properties (DP). For example: re-evaluate DP of separate method and evaluate DP of methods in lazy manner.
• Support serialization (on solution loading) & deserialization (on solution unloading) for AST, declarations and symbols (to prevent parsing on a project loading)

IDE support

• Project reference
• API for quickfix on compiler messages
• Code formatting
• Refactoring API
• Rename refactoring
• Miscellaneous
• Expand/collapse selection
• Complete statement

Project DSL

• Design and implement Project DSL. This DSL should replace IProjectSupport (currently used in Nitra)

Languages support

• Nemerle
• C#

Distribution

• Make deploying of nuget packages to nuget.org
• Make VSIX for Nitra
• Make Web site

Documentation

• Write documentation for Mapping
• Write documentation for Dependent Properties Language
• Write documentation for AST/Declarations
• Write documentation for IDE features

Bootstrapping

• Replace Nemerle 1.0 code by Nemerle 2.0 code (powered by Nitra).
• Move Nitra on Project DSL

Completing this phase means we can do the following:

• Implement IDE support for Nitra
• Implement Extensible C# and Nemerle 2.0 on Nitra
• Make Nitra independent from Nemerle 1.0.
• Move Nitra on .Net backend and Nemerle 2.0.
• Release Nitra 1.0 (make distributive and deploying nuget packages)