Chapter 3. Implementing DSLs
At this point you should have a good sense of what a DSL is and why you might be interested in using one. It’s time now to delve into the techniques that you’ll need to start building a DSL. Although many of these techniques vary between internal and external DSLs, there is also much that they have in common. In this chapter, I’ll concentrate on the common issues for internal and external DSLs, moving onto specific issues in the next chapter. I’ll also ignore language workbenches for the moment; I’ll get back to them much later on.
3.1 Architecture of DSL Processing
Figure 3.1 The overall architecture of DSL processing that I usually prefer
Perhaps one of the most important things to talk about is the broad structure ...
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