[antlr-interest] Re: unexpected token ... and a new question

lgcraymer lgc at mail1.jpl.nasa.gov
Tue Feb 10 19:20:33 PST 2004


--- In antlr-interest at yahoogroups.com, "offline314159" <offline at s...>
wrote:
> I want rules to match a few different types of words - there's a few
> literals, some words that begin "X-" and then there's a few places
> where any non-control ascii character is allowed, provided semicolons
> are escaped.
> 
> These are three separate types of token, but you can imagine there are
> a few ambiguities - how do i go about handling that?

Sorry--that doesn't give a clear picture.  Syntactic predicates are a
good way of brute-forcing your way past ambiguities--you can later go
back and refactor.  For keyword-rich specifications, it usually helps
to construct symbol tables, recognize generic tokens, and use semantic
predicates to look up values in the symbol tables to identify specific
use.

--Loring



 
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