[antlr-interest] VB If elseif end if?
Monty Zukowski
monty at codetransform.com
Wed Apr 28 10:06:08 PDT 2004
On Apr 27, 2004, at 11:07 AM, John D. Mitchell wrote:
>
>> This is because in VB the newline after y means your done. However I
>> eat
>> all newlines in the lexer. What are the possible ways around this?
>
> ObDisclaimer. I haven't even looked at any version of Microsoft BASIC
> in at
> least a decade.
>
> What's the actual rules for dealing with newlines in VB? E.g., can you
> have individual expressions or "statements" which occur on multiple
> lines
> or is the newline always a terminator (or a separator)?
>
> Basically, depending on that answer, you could inject a synthetic
> separator
> or terminator when you see a newline.
Also you could write a parser filter that handles that. There are
similar issues in AREV basic. See "Using a Parser as a TokenFilter":
http://www.codetransform.com/filterexample.html
Monty Zukowski
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