[antlr-interest] template generation for dumb rules

[Gavin Lambert]

At 08:07 26/03/2008, Terence Parr wrote:
 >Agreed...but what about
 >
 >d : id (',' id) ';' ;
 >
 >what should i produce here? In other words, when do I stop doing 

 >the default behavior and force you to say how it works?  Do i
 >even put in the literals into the result template?  Maybe.

By default, probably yes, that's the most sensible thing to 
do.  If they don't want the literals in the output, then they can 
specify the template they want instead.

In fact, by doing this you're basically saying that the default 
output of a template-output ANTLR parser will be the same as its 
input; and that will probably help the people who are trying to do 
fairly minimal rewrites (and those doing more extensive rewrites 
are probably outputting to AST anyway).

Then again, you should probably only take what I say with a grain 
of salt, since I've mostly only done "toy" projects with ANTLR at 
this point.