[antlr-interest] REAL or int or Range

Alexander Gängel alexander at gaengel.de
Tue Jan 22 07:05:52 PST 2008


ok, I see.

is there any workaround ?

cause the Language I try to parse not only allows int real and rang but 
also functions like 13.div(2) so if the lexer could distinguish '.' and 
'..' I think this would not be such an hard Problem then.

Alexander

Gavin Lambert schrieb:
> At 22:32 22/01/2008, Alexander Gängel wrote:
>
>> Ok so it works, but shouldn't LL(*)  distinguish between '.' and '..'
>
> Arguably yes, but the lookahead in the lexer definitely seems to be 
> biased towards only LL(1) at the moment.  Ter said he's going to look 
> into it sometime.
>
>


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