[antlr-interest] languages without reserved words

[Michael Brade]

On Tuesday 07 March 2006 22:45, Martin Probst wrote:
> The problem is that every parser would first need to know if an NCNAME
> comes up to decide to enter the identifier rules. That's always a
> problem with state switching in the parser - lookahead stops working
> predictably. There is no way around that - you can't decide to enter the
> identifier rule before you know there's an identifier coming up, for
> which you need to know whether you're in the identifier rule ...
Not quite. There's a line "if (LA(1)==NCNAME)" in the code "to know if an 
NCNAME comes up". The trick I would need is simply a 
lexer.testLiterals=false; call right before it. That's all. I could modify 
the generated code by hand, but that's something I'd rather avoid for now.

Cheers,
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