[antlr-interest] Mask shift-reduce warning?

[Kevin J. Cummings]

Clifford Heath wrote:
> Randall R Schulz wrote:
>> On Wednesday 14 November 2007 18:18, Clifford Heath wrote:
>>> I have a grammar which has an unavoidable shift-reduce ambiguity,
>> Eh? Am I confused? Aren't "shift-reduce" ambiguities something that
>> only occur in LR parsers?
> 
> Oh, ok, but you know what I mean - what's the equivalent thing in LL
> called?
> It's a situation like the if... else ambiguity, where I want the else to
> bind
> to the closest if.
> 
> Is it possible to tell ANTLR that I know this alternative is ambiguous
> and not to warn me please?

That's what syntactic predicates do.  If you can view far enough ahead
to see what you want, you can avoid ANTLR doing the "wrong" thing.

> Clifford Heath.


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