[antlr-interest] What tool[s] do you use when debugging ANTLR
grammars?
mzukowski at yci.com
mzukowski at yci.com
Fri Jun 21 06:48:59 PDT 2002
You can learn all about how you would do it by hand in Ter's book draft:
http://www.antlr.org/book/byhand.pdf
Monty
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bob mcwhirter [mailto:bob at werken.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 9:42 PM
> To: antlr-interest at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [antlr-interest] What tool[s] do you use when debugging
> ANTLR grammars?
>
>
> > So what tools do you use for grammar debugging and, what
> tips can you
> > offer an ANTLR newbie on grammar creation and debugging?
>
> This is going to sound pedantic, but...
>
> Learn about recursive-descent parsers. You'll understand how
> ANTLR thinks
> once you grok r-d parsers. Then, you can just look at the generated
> source, and figure out why ANTLR is zigging when you expected
> it to zag.
>
> I highly recommend writing at least 1 r-d parser in your
> life. It'll give
> you an appreciation of exactly how much drudgery you avoid by
> using ANTLR.
>
> -bob
>
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