[antlr-interest] Exit Status from ANTLR

[Randall R Schulz]

Oliver,

On Monday 20 November 2006 00:40, you wrote:
> I do not think so. Using System.exit in an IDE like e.g. Eclipse will
> either tear down the whole IDE or cause a security exception. Neither
> option is desirable.

I specifically asked that this be done for the command-line interface 
invoked via the main method org.antlr.Tool. That method should only be 
used by the stand-alone CLI tool.


Randall Schulz


> Oliver
>
> 2006/11/19, Randall R Schulz <rschulz at sonic.net>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > It would be nice if the ANTLR command (as in {@link
> > org.antlr.Tool#main(String[])} would call
> > System.exit(somethingNonZero) if it detected and error in the
> > submitted grammar specification.