[antlr-interest] Can someone please explain

Tom Moog tmoog at polhode.com
Tue Jun 25 05:41:49 PDT 2002


Well, there's always pccts (aka antlr v1) for C++.
It does full LL(k) when linear lookahead isn't sufficient.


On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Terence Parr wrote:

> 
> On Monday, June 24, 2002, at 12:09  AM, Silvain Piree wrote:
> 
> > Monty,
> >
> >> The problem is with linear approximate lookahead, I think.
> >
> > Thank you for your explanation. I think I understand it now.
> >
> >> In fact it will work in this case, it just mistakenly gives a
> >> warning.
> >
> > It would be nice if I could turn off the warning message
> > (just like with ambiguity warning).
> >
> >> The future holds the promise of full LL and the possibility of
> >> antlr automatically recognizing when an ambiguity is due to
> >> LALL and dropping back to LL.
> >
> > Do you known if anyone is working on this?
> 
> Yep, I'm actually rereading my dissertation to remember all the 
> problems ;)  Boy, I was smart before I started building web pages ;)  
> Now I can't even spell "grammer" ;)  I'm focusing on finding consulting 
> work at the moment so I'm not sure when such a thing will happen.
> 
> Ter
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