Brian's Waste of Time
Thu, 08 Feb 2007
So the The Definitive ANTLR Reference by Terence Parr, from the PragProgs, went up in beta form today! Woot!
Aside from general excitement over having a good dead-tree ANTLR reference available, there is a cool thing I noticed in the PDF. All the code samples are linked to, what I presume will become, the text form online!
Note the "Download tour/eval/Expr.g" at the top. That is a live link in the PDF. It 404's right now, but I presume when the book is released the code will be there. That rocks. The normal "download the ode at http://example.com/foobaz.tgz" and dig through the tarball ~works, but a live link directly to the correct context is way better.
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I've noticed this with the other PragProg PDF's as well. It's definately a handy feature. Frequently I'll be reading in the paper version and open the PDF just so I can get the code link. M<
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