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Overview

• Froley is a "compiler compiler" for creating virtual machine-based tokenizers and parsers.
• A developer programs their tokenizer and parser in two different domain-specific languages: Froley Tokenizer Language (FTL) and Froley Parser Language (FPL).
• The Froley compiler turns the Tokenizer and Parser programs into bytecode. It also generates Tokenizer and Parser VMs to run the bytecode along with supporting compiler framework in a specified target language - currently only Rogue is supported.
• Froley can update a previously-generated compiler framework. It will rewrite certain enumerations and add new command cmd (AST cmd) class definitions but it will not overwrite any custom modifications that have been made.
• Consequently the ".froley" source file serves as the master definition for a custom language's syntax, grammar, tokenizer, and parser. Changes and additions made to the language can be easily propagated to various compiler implementations in a variety of host languages.

See:

• .froley Files
• Froley Tokenizer Language
• Froley Parser Language

Usage

froley filename.froley [options]

Options

Option	Description
--language=name	Specifies the name of the language that the Froley-generated Tokenizer and Parser will parse. For example, to generate Rogue source code that will parse a language called Simple you would write froley --language=Simple. If no --language is specified then the base name of the .froley filename is used as the language name.
--main	Creates a main file (if it does not yet exist) to test out the tokenizer and parser.
--output=folder	Specifies the output folder for generated code.