[antlr-interest] grammars without any rules

[N.V.S. Karunakar]

> >    ANTLR doesn't allow a grammar definition without a rule. Consider
> > this
> > case - We define a lexer for a language K. In the next version of K
> > which is
> > NextK, all we do is to add a few keywords and add some syntactic
> > constructs.
> > We will use grammar inheritance to add more rules to the parser. to add
> > extra key words we inherit from the K's lexer. we can add the new key
> > words
> > to the tokens section of this new lexer. there is no need to add any new
> > lexer rules. but ANTLR insists on a rule. in this light can we allow
> > grammars without any rules ?
>
> Howdy.  Can you just add a dummy rule?
>
> Ter

we sure can add a dummy rule. But i was wondering why ANTLR should insist on
having at least one rule.

thanks,
karunakar


 

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