Flexible Command Interpreter: A Pattern for an Extensible and Language-Independent Interpreter System

By: N. Portner

Summary: An architecture for an interpreter system that allows for flexible extension of the command language's scope and independence from the actual grammar of the language.

Pattern: Flexible Command Interpreter

An architecture for an interpreter system that allows for flexible extension of the command language's scope and independence from the actual grammar of the language.

• This pattern has the same intent as Interpreter [Gamma+95]
• This pattern can be extended by using Strategy [Gamma+95]