[antlr-interest] v3: conformance of current Java 1.5 grammar

[Terence Parr]

On Aug 25, 2006, at 10:39 AM, Dieter Frej wrote:

> Hi everbody,

Hi Dieter,

> some time ago, I had some spare time and I checked the conformance
> of the current Java 1.5 grammar to the Java Language Specification 3.
> And I was really surprised.

In a good way or a bad way?

> I attached a file listing the rules and
> their corresponding page number in the jls3 pdf.

I don't see any information in that conformance.txt file.  Did you  
send the right file?

> To increase the
> conformity I renamed some rules.
>
> I also attached the changed java grammar. So far, I had no time to
> look into overwriting the method,

Which method?

> so that exceptions are not
> catched by antlr. If this is done (has anyone does this yet?), I can
> start compiling the JCK again...

Thanks for putting time into this but I must admit I cannot parse  
this e-mail and determine what exactly you have and don't  
have...sorry! can you try to explain in more detail?

Ter