autoSql and autoXml: Code Generators from the Genome Project

Listing 2. autoSql Grammar

declarationList:
 declaration
 declarationList declaration
declaration:
 declareType declareName comment '(' fieldList
')'
declareType:
 'simple'
 'object'
 'table'
declareName:
 name
comment:
 quotedString
fieldList:
 field
 fieldList field
field:
 fieldType fieldName ';' comment
 fieldType '[' fieldSize ']' name
';' comment
fieldName:
 name
fieldType:
 'int'
 'uint'
 'short'
 'ushort'
 'byte'
 'ubyte'
 'float'
 'char'
 'string'
 'lstring'
 declareType declareName
fieldSize:
 number
 fieldName

Notes:

• name: a series of letters and digits, starting with a letter
• number: a series of digits
• quotedString: any text that is surrounded by double quotes