[antlr-interest] super grammar surprise

Lloyd Dupont lloyd at nova-mind.com
Wed May 25 21:04:04 PDT 2005


I have to discuss with my boss about that.
However the parsing of the ObjectiveC grammar in itself being quite simple 
in fact (ObjectiveC being a really thin object oriented superset of C (as 
opposed to.. C++!!)) I guess it won't be much of an issue...

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John D. Mitchell" <johnm-antlr at non.net>
To: "Lloyd Dupont" <lloyd at nova-mind.com>
Cc: <antlr-interest at antlr.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 1:11 PM
Subject: Re: [antlr-interest] super grammar surprise


>>>>>> "Lloyd" == Lloyd Dupont <lloyd at nova-mind.com> writes:
> [...]
>
>> mmhh... I guess it's a feature, as it let you 'override' the declared
>> code.  well I have to copy paste I suppose....
>
> Yeah, I really hate that "feature".
>
> The Antlr v2 grammar inheritance was really a big experiement and, well,
> there's some good and some bad.
>
> Take care,
> John
>
> P.S. Is the Obj-C grammar something that you can contribute to the
> distribution? 



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