[antlr-interest] syntactic predicates and exceptions
shmuel siegel
antlr at shmuelhome.mine.nu
Thu Oct 20 02:47:34 PDT 2005
Nigel Sheridan-Smith wrote:
> I don't want to weigh in to this argument too much, but I do want to mention
> one point.
>
> If you remove exception handling for back-tracking, there is one risk: the
> readability of the code (and hence the ease of debugging and tracing) will
> be reduced.
>
Don't underestimate this point. The readability is one of the main
selling points of antlr. At least that is how I get away with using it
in a yacc shop.
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