[antlr-interest] Bug? Invalid Java code generated

[Sam Barnett-Cormack]

Jim Idle wrote:
> Sam Barnett-Cormack wrote:
>> Hi all
>>
>> The attached grammar (which you're probably all tired of) generates 
>> Java code with an error in. I've checked, and the error isn't in a 
>> copy action or predicate - it's in the expansion of $text in a parser 
>> predicate. I don't know if I've used $text incorrectly,
> 
> Here is a hint. $text of what? This is a parser rule not a lexer rule.

"The Definitive ANTLR Reference", Terence Parr, p130: Figure 6.2, 
Predefined Parser Rule Attributes:

"Attribute: text
Type: String
Description: The text matched from the start of the rule up until the 
point of the $text expression evaluation..."

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Sam Barnett-Cormack