[antlr-interest] tree grammar and output=AST

Terence Parr parrt at cs.usfca.edu
Thu Jul 12 09:00:39 PDT 2007


Hi. It's a major item on my todo list.
Ter
On Jul 12, 2007, at 8:59 AM, John Ridgway wrote:

> Friends -
> I would like to do an AST -> AST transformation using tree grammars  
> in ANTLR 3.  Unfortunately it seems that "output=AST" and "tree  
> grammar" are incompatible.  Is this a fundamental limitation and  
> I'm just not understanding it, or could it be fixed easily?
>
> The problems seem to be twofold:
> 1) There's a call to adaptor.create(...) which expects a Token and  
> is being passed a CommonTree.
> 2) There's a use of retval.stop (or something like that).
>
> Peace
> - John
>



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