[antlr-interest] Re: Questions about learning ANTLR

[Terence Parr]

On Monday, October 7, 2002, at 10:47  AM, mzukowski at yci.com wrote:

> I think you're right, it sounds like a mistake.

This bit me just last night myself.  Option is actually the "tokens 
{...}" option, right not literals {...}? ;)

Ter
>
> Monty
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hensley, Richard [mailto:richard.hensley at mckesson.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 9:51 AM
> To: 'antlr-interest at yahoogroups.com'
> Subject: RE: [antlr-interest] Re: Questions about learning ANTLR
>
>
> Monty,
> I use the "testLiterals" option in my grammar's. However, I was 
> referring to
> the "literals" option as indicated in this sentence that is just 
> before the
> one that refers to the "testLiterals" option.
> "Second, literals may be specified in the lexer grammar by means of the
> literal option."
> The word literal is a link, and refers to "options.html#literal" which 
> is
> not on options page. I don't think it exists, and is a mistake in the
> documentation.
> I would be happy to give some opinionated feedback about how the web 
> site
> could be structured. I will put some thought into it.
> Richard
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mzukowski at yci.com [mailto:mzukowski at yci.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 9:40 AM
> To: antlr-interest at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [antlr-interest] Re: Questions about learning ANTLR
>
>
> It's at http://www.antlr.org/doc/options.html#_bb8.
> By the way, Ter (and I'm gonna help) is about to embark upon a 
> restructuring
>
> of the docs and website.  It would help a lot if you could explain how 
> the
> documentation should be, in your opinion.
> Monty
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hensley, Richard [mailto:richard.hensley at mckesson.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 8:45 AM
> To: 'antlr-interest at yahoogroups.com'
> Subject: RE: [antlr-interest] Re: Questions about learning ANTLR
>
>
> Monty,
> Thanks for the link. When I read that chunk of documentation, I 
> interpreted
> it to mean any double quoted string, including those specified in a 
> tokens
> section. It turns out that I got lucky I guess, because double quoted
> strings in a tokens section are placed in the literals table. All that 
> being
>
> said, I'm not sure it matters whether double quoted string literals are
> specified in the tokens section, or inline. On examining the code, 
> I've been
>
> unable to find sigficant function differences.
> BTW, I was unable to find the literal option referred to in the
> documentation. Do anybody know what it is?
> Richard
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mzukowski at yci.com [mailto:mzukowski at yci.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 8:01 AM
> To: antlr-interest at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [antlr-interest] Re: Questions about learning ANTLR
>
>
> http://www.antlr.org/doc/lexer.html#_bb7
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hensley, Richard [mailto:richard.hensley at mckesson.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 4:40 PM
> To: 'antlr-interest at yahoogroups.com'
> Subject: RE: [antlr-interest] Re: Questions about learning ANTLR
>
>
> Monty,
> Where in the documentation does it talk about keywords being specified 
> as
> literals? I want to check it out to make sure I didn't screw up my 
> grammars,
>
> and give bad advice.
> Richard
> ....
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