[antlr-interest] AST with optional parameters

[Bart Kiers]

Hi David,

Try this:

(ID GETS) => ID GETS expr SEMI? -> ^(GETS ID expr SEMI?)


Regards,

Bart.


On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:41 PM, David Smith <david.smith at cc.gatech.edu>wrote:

> I'm parsing a grammar in which the semicolon on the end of a line is
> optional. So two of the statement rules might be:
>    |   (ID GETS expr SEMI) => ID GETS expr SEMI -> ^(GETS ID expr SEMI)
>    |   (ID GETS) => ID GETS expr -> ^(GETS ID expr)
> Since this occurs with a number of different assignment statements, I
> would really like to collapse this into one rule that looks something
> like this:
>    |   (ID GETS) => ID GETS e=expr (s=SEMI)? -> ^(GETS ID $e $s)
> but every implementation I can think of either refuses to generate
> the grammar or, as in the case above, generates the grammar but
> decides that the variable 's' is unknown.
> Is there a any way to achieve this?
>
>                                 DMS
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> David M. Smith http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/David.Smith
> Georgia Institute of Technology, College of Computing
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