[antlr-interest] Possible bug in Antlr.g

[Trey Spiva]

Yes you are correct.  I had the feeling that I was overlooking something.

Trey Spiva
Senior Software Engineer
trey.spiva at embarcadero.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ric Klaren [mailto:klaren at cs.utwente.nl]
> Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 10:28 AM
> To: antlr-interest at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [antlr-interest] Possible bug in Antlr.g
> 
> 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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