Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC'06)
Specification and Construction of Control Flow Semantics
Brighton, United Kingdom
September 04-September 08
ISBN: 0-7695-2586-5
In this paper we propose a visual language CFSL for specifying control flow semantics of programming languages. We also present a translation from CFSL to graph production systems (GPS) for flow graph construction; that is, any CFSL specification, say for a language L, gives rise to a GPS that constructs from any L-program (represented as an abstract syntax graph) the corresponding flow graph. The specification language is rich enough to capture complex language constructs, including all of Java.
Citation:
Ruben Smelik, Arend Rensink, Harmen Kastenberg, "Specification and Construction of Control Flow Semantics," vlhcc, pp.65-72, Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC'06), 2006