[antlr-interest] ANTLR274: Small functional extension proposal: synonym

[Anakreon]

Francis ANDRE wrote:
>>Hi.  Well, that's pretty specialized.  Further, all you have to do is
>>add them to the hashtable of literals with the same token type and
>>it'll just work. :)
> 
> 
> Yes, it is what I have done for now
> 
> But the problem is the maintenance and the lisibility of a grammar
> maintained by a third party. IMHO, it would better to express the fact that
> a token has more than one lexeme or textual representaiton in the grammar
> itself than in a additional derivative generated lexer. (Just for you to get
> my point, my grammar has more than 260 tokens with at least 20 synonyms)
> 
> Make the evidence evident whenever possible is a quite good rule when
> programming!
> 
I agree with this opinion although I have never faced a case where
synonimes are required. Synonimes is part of the language so it should
be expressed in antlr instead of doing it via action code.

Anakreon


 
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