[antlr-interest] generating random sentences

[Terence Parr]

Howdy,

For testing ANTLR, i made a quick method that operates on my internal 
NFA data structure to generate random sentences.  This will work with 
any input grammar of course and would be useful to send in random, but 
grammatically correct, input to a translator to ensure the program 
doesn't crash etc...

Just thought people would find it interesting...related to the unit 
testing discussion previously.

For example, given

a : (A | B) X ;

you'll get either AX and BX output.  Each branch is chosen with equal 
probability. :)

Ter
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