Best design for generating code from an AST?

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Published on 2010-02-04T18:03:40Z Indexed on 2010/05/28 10:21 UTC
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I'm working on a pretty complex DSL that I want to compile down into a few high level languages. The whole process has been a learning experience. The compiler is written in java.

I was wondering if anyone knew a best practice for the design of the code generator portion. I currently have everything parsed into an abstract syntax tree.

I was thinking of using a template system, but I haven't researched that direction too far yet as I would like to hear some wisdom first from stack overflow.

Thanks!

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