[antlr-interest] file names and grammar names

[Kay Roepke]

On 18. May 2006, at 1:58 Uhr, Terence Parr wrote:

> Currently you can name your grammar file anything and then have any  
> grammar name inside. E.g., t.g can have
>
> grammar Foo
>
> in it.  When we go looking for other grammar vocabularies etc... it  
> would be nice to be able to tell (like Java does) from the filename  
> what's inside...
>
> Do people think I should force the grammar name (including case) to  
> be same as filename (with .g suffix)?

Well, personally I have always disliked that but I can see the merit  
for getting vocabs. If it's clearly spelled out in the docs, it  
shouldn't really be a problem.

What would lexer grammar file names look like? Foo.lexer.g (like  
those coming out of combined grammars)?

-k