[antlr-interest] Matching lists of items

[Johannes Luber]

Jamie Penney schrieb:
> Hi All,
> If I have a list of expressions that are separated by a separator 
> character (say ','), is there a concise way of matching this? So far I 
> am using the following:
> 
> expression (',' expression)*
> 
> but it seems quite verbose. Is there a shortcut for this? It gets quite 
> cumbersome once the expression part gets large.

You could create an extra rule for expression, but I don't know if one 
can really write it shorter except via creating a special syntax.

Johannes