[antlr-interest] odd nondeterminism

[Terence Parr]

On Jan 3, 2005, at 9:11 PM, Paul J. Lucas wrote:

> 	Given:
>
> 		expr : exprSingle (sortByClause)? ;
>
> 		sortByClause : SORT BY '(' sortSpec ')' ;
>
> 	I get:
>
> 		warning:nondeterminism between alts 1 and 2 of block
> 		upon k==1:SORT
>
> 	but I don't understand why.  SORT appears nowhere else in the
> 	grammar.

Then expr must be in a loop somewhere without another terminal I'd say.

Ter
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