[antlr-interest] Re: Predicate question
Mark
markl at glyphic.com
Mon May 3 14:23:24 PDT 2004
> The '}' has dual purposes: Terminate the last statement and close
> the function. So is there a way to write a non-ugly grammar for an
> ugly language?
Yes, treat newline as a separator not a terminator:
function := id "{" statement-list "}" ;
statement-list := statement ( newline statement )* ;
statement := ... | empty ;
newline := NL ;
empty := ;
Since I assume that blank lines are allowed, this grammar allows a statement to be empty.
This also has the nice effect of allowing the statement-list to be empty, and for there to be
an extra newline between the last non-empty statement and the closing curly brace.
- Mark
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