[antlr-interest] Generateambigwarnings option

Steve Bennett stevagewp at gmail.com
Sat Feb 9 06:53:41 PST 2008


On 2/5/08, Gavin Lambert <antlr at mirality.co.nz> wrote:
> At 19:56 5/02/2008, Steve Bennett wrote:
>  >
>  >I noticed this option in some older grammars, but it doesn't
> seem
>  >to be around anymore. Did it change names? It looks handy for
>  >making a more readable grammar.
>
> That's a v2-ism.  In v3 you're expected to either live with it or
> rewrite your grammar so it's not ambiguous any more ;)

Yeah, well that's sort of what I figured. Both options are kind of
inconvenient: pages of warnings obscure real warnings that I should
know about. Placing synpreds everywhere reduces readability, and iiuc,
performance.

Not a biggie though.

Steve


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