[antlr-interest] Possible bug in Antlr.g

[Ric Klaren]

Hi,

On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 10:04:40AM -0600, Trey Spiva wrote:
> CHAR_LITERAL is defined as 
>  
> CHAR_LITERAL
>    :  '\'' (ESC|~'\'') '\''
>    ;
..
> It seems to me that CHAR_LITERAL will only correctly match '\3' it will not
> match '\377' because 
> the rule does not have an (ESC|~'\'')*

But the ESC rule will match \377 (if I'm not off :) ) representing one
charachter. And in the other case it will match just one char '~'\'' which
seems to be ok to me.

Cheers,

Ric
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