[antlr-interest] Invalid parser generation

Tue Sep 4 13:12:24 PDT 2012

Thank ou very much, Jesse, for the explanation.

The main rule is called with the method expression(), right? I need to get the AST from the parser in C#.

I can't find the C# reference for the classe parser, I guess the reference is still under development:
http://www.antlr.org/api/index.html

> Message du 04/09/12 à 21h22
> De : "Jesse McGrew"
> A : antlr-interest at antlr.org
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> Objet : Re: [antlr-interest] Invalid parser generation
>
> "poly" is the name of a parser rule. Each parser rule becomes a
> method. To invoke the parser from your own code, there's no single
> entry point (like there is with yacc); you decide which rule you want
> to use as the entry point and then call it.
>
> Jesse
>
> On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 12:14 PM, mark4 at voila.fr wrote:
> > I'm sorry, last time I replied to Stefan, I forgot to use "Reply to all".
> >
> > Of course I've read many of your tutorials, but the problem is that they are not up to date. I guess that highlighting the points that need to be updated will help you bring the modifications. If I e-mailed Terence, it was because the link to the ANTLR package in the ANTLR 3 C# tutorial was not pointing to the right file and there were missing libraries... I'm adding that your tutorials are not written for beginners.
> >
> > Currently, I'm struggling to get the AST from the Parser class, the method getAST() does not seem to exist anymore. The wiki is up again, so I could have a look at this tutorial:
> > http://www.antlr.org/wiki/display/ANTLR3/Tree+construction
> > It seems that it's working differently in ANTLR 3:
> >
> > PolyParser.poly_return r = parser.poly();
> > System.out.println("tree="+((Tree)r.tree).toStringTree());
> >
> > But what does this method poly() mean? You don't explain it in this tutorial...
> >
> >> Message du 04/09/12 à 20h33
> >> De : "Jim Idle"
> >> A : antlr-interest at antlr.org
> >> Copie à :
> >> Objet : Re: [antlr-interest] Invalid parser generation
> >>
> >> Please don't email people directly - always use the list. Terence does not have the time to answer generic questions about your grammar I am afraid, unless you want to pay him :) You really need to start by running all the example grammars until you understand them, and reading the tutorials in the wiki. Jim > -----Original Message----- > From: antlr-interest-bounces at antlr.org [mailto:antlr-interest- > bounces at antlr.org] On Behalf Of mark4 at voila.fr > Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 7:00 AM > To: Stefan Mätje; antlr-interest at antlr.org > Subject: Re: [antlr-interest] Invalid parser generation > > Hi Stefan, > > Thanks for the info. The antlr.org website is down, so I couldn't delve > into details about lexer and parser rules. What I understood from > trials and errors is that ALL the lexer rules that are placed into the > grammar are matched against input. But the COMPTE and ID rules are just > parts of other rules. Tagging them as "fragment" seems to do the job by > telling ANTLR not to match those rules taken alone. Now, the grammar > validates and the generated code compiles. > > I'm using a ANTLRStringStream to input a string to be matched against > the grammar. Now, when I execute the program, whatever string I may > put, I never fall into the RecognitionException exception. I've asked > Terrence whether the expression() method was the right method to run > the parsing process (since in the ANTLR 3 C# tutorial, the method > expr() was used but it's deprecated) but I did not get his reply yet. > Note that I also had to change "HIDDEN" to "Hidden" for the code to > compile. It seems that the tutorials are not up to date on the website. > > Regards, > Mark > > > Message du 04/09/12 à 15h40 > > De : "Stefan Mätje" > > A : antlr-interest at antlr.org > > Copie à : "mark4 at voila.fr" > > Objet : Re: [antlr-interest] Invalid parser generation > > > > Am 04.09.2012 14:35, schrieb mark4 at voila.fr:> Hi Stefan, > > > > > > Thanks for your reply. I didn't understand the difference between > > > lexer rules and parser rules because, in fine, a parser rule will > > > always resolve in a series of lexer rules... > > > > Please don't mix the lexer and the parser phase in your mind. The > > lexer deals with single characters and groups them into tokens. > > > > The parser doesn't know anything about single characters and deals > > only with tokens. > > > > > Anyway, I applied the modification but I now get an error: > > > > > > COMPTE : ('0'..'9')+; > > > > > > ID : ('a'..'z'|'A'..'Z'|'_') ('a'..'z'|'A'..'Z'|'0'..'9'|'_')* ; > > > > > > The following token definitions can never be matched because prior > > > tokens match the same input: COMPTE,ID > > > > You have rules in your grammar before COMPTE and ID that define a > > superset of the character sequences that COMPTE and ID can match. > > > > > Well, I have several entities in my grammar that have different > > > encoding forms, so how can I specify them one after the other? > > > > If at the end one type of token should be produced all needed regular > > expressions have to go into one rule. > > > > > Thanks, > > > Mark > > > > > > > As rule of thumb write the most specific lexer rules first and then > > follow them with the less specific rules. The lexer will give the > > rules first written a higher precedence. > > > > So put your keywords first (which are fixed strings). Then follow > them > > with something like operators (also fixed strings). At the lower > level > > rules that can match different strings like ID and COMPTE follow. > > > > See what Antlrworks tells you about multiple matches and which rules > > are involved. > > > > Don't know if this may help but the rule that matches both COMPTE and > > ID would be most interesting. > > > > Best regards, > > Stefan > > > > PS.: Please reply also to the list. > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > Quand Jean-Luc Delarue parlait de son grand amour… à lire sur Voila.fr > http://people.voila.fr/people/actu-stars/personnalites/quand-jean-luc- > delarue-parlait-d-anissa-kehl-son-grand-amour-people_8397.html > > List: http://www.antlr.org/mailman/listinfo/antlr-interest > Unsubscribe: http://www.antlr.org/mailman/options/antlr-interest/your- > email-address List: http://www.antlr.org/mailman/listinfo/antlr-interest Unsubscribe: http://www.antlr.org/mailman/options/antlr-interest/your-email-address
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