[antlr-interest] v4 "Honey Badger" teaser

[Terence Parr]

Could be interesting… I was kind of hoping to save those `…` for future use. but yes making case insensitivity easier it would be nice.

honey badger is crazy

Ter
On Dec 29, 2011, at 4:16 PM, Jim Idle wrote:

> What about something like:
> 
> EDGE: `EDGE` ;  // Backtick is case insensitive
> 
> Jim
> 
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>> 
>> Hi Kyle, I've also implemented the shorthand [] for lexers. :) woot!
>> 
>> // "The keywords node, edge, graph, digraph, subgraph, and strict are
>> // case-independent"
>> STRICT      :   [Ss][Tt][Rr][Ii][Cc][Tt] ;
>> GRAPH       :   [Gg][Rr][Aa][Pp][Hh] ;
>> DIGRAPH     :   [Dd][Ii][Gg][Rr][Aa][Pp][Hh] ;
>> NODE        :   [Nn][Oo][Dd][Ee] ;
>> EDGE        :   [Ee][Dd][Gg][Ee] ;
>> SUBGRAPH    :   [Ss][Uu][Bb][Gg][Rr][Aa][Pp][Hh] ;
>> 
>> Ter
>> 
>> On Dec 29, 2011, at 3:58 PM, Kyle Ferrio wrote:
>> 
>>> Excellent.  I always thought that it should be possible to support
>>> left-recursion with LL(*) but I did not presume that it would be
>>> efficient or easy or wise.  Since I tend to think left-recursively a
>>> lot, I am a happy honey badger, and I parse whatever I want!
>>> 
>>> Kyle
>> 
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