[antlr-interest] Auto- completion feature based on ANTLR

Matt Benson gudnabrsam at yahoo.com
Tue Aug 19 07:12:57 PDT 2003


Okay, I just barely understand that... :)

-Matt

--- Terence Parr <parrt at cs.usfca.edu> wrote:
> 
> On Monday, August 18, 2003, at 01:41 PM, Matt Benson
> wrote:
> 
> > --- Terence Parr <parrt at cs.usfca.edu> wrote:
> >> Hi.  Auto-completion is not really convenient in
> the
> >> current generated
> >> output.  It's kind of like compiling C code w/o
> the
> >> symbol table
> >> information (-g option).  The current ANTLR 3
> >> analysis engine I'm
> >> working on makes this sort of thing trivial
> >
> > Which particular spec of version 3 will cover
> this?
> > Is there an updated spec-in-progress?
> 
> Nope...i'm just working on the engine (throwaway
> prototype) at the 
> moment, but this has led me to believe I can do all
> sorts of fancy 
> tricks later if I simply serialize the
> grammar/lookahead info (like -g 
> option) into the output parser so it's available. 
> The degenerate case 
> might be that I don't generate the parser, just the
> grammar/lookahead 
> info and then you can intepret it. :)
> 
> Ter
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