[antlr-interest] grammar for jdk1.5 parameterized types

Matthew Ford Matthew.Ford at forward.com.au
Thu Sep 18 12:09:03 PDT 2003


Sorry on reading http://www.thecortex.net/clover/generics.html#grammar
I seem to be circular referencing this list.
matthew

I need to read faster and type slower next time.  Actually I seem to
remember a Sun document discussing this >> problem and that was what I was
searching for.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John P N Pybus" <john-yahoo at pybus.org>
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Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 4:55 AM
Subject: Re: [antlr-interest] grammar for jdk1.5 parameterized types


> mzukowski at yci.com wrote:
> > You can't switch your lexer from the parser safely.  ANTLR doesn't work
that
> > way (infinite lookahead and all that).  I suggest getting rid of ">>" as
a
> > token and making the parser look for '>' '>' as GT.
> >
> > Monty
>
> Hmm, with the lexer ignoring Whitespace wouldn't the parser then allow
> "n > > 3" as well as "n >> 3"?
>
> I'd suggest using lookahead in the lexer to define 3 tokens GT_GT,
> GT_EQ, and GT corresponding to a '>' directly followed by another '>';
> '>' followed by '=' and all other '>' chars, respectively.
>
> You can use ( GT | GT_GT ) in your parser rules for generics, and can
> define the various shift operators as GT_GT GT; GT_GT GT_EQ EQ etc...
>
> I haven't done this with the antlr java grammar myself, but I believe
> I've seen this approach used in other java1.5 recognisers (sorry no
> reference handy).
>
> Hope this makes some sense.
>
> Yours,
>
> John
>
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