[antlr-interest] Re: alternative prediction mechanism for 3.0

[Terence Parr]

On Jul 4, 2004, at 12:46 PM, antlrbrian wrote:
> --- In antlr-interest at yahoogroups.com, Terence Parr <parrt at c...> wrote:
>> Oh, right...yeah, I rejected that idea because you couldn't step thru
>> the DFAs that way. :(  (goto in bytecode won't go back to source) :(
>
> That was #1 and #2 on my list:
>
> 1. The DFA textual representation will be easier to read than
>    generated Java code.
> 2. Using the new Java debugging API's (JSR 45), the classfiles
>    can be generated in such a way that debuggers can trace
>    through the DFA's textual representation directly.
>
> In other words, when you are single-stepping through code in the
> debugger, and you get into the DFA part, the debugger would actually
> open up the files that contain the DFA "source code" (textual
> representation), and single-step through the actual DFA. Presumably,
> the DFA's textual representation would be much easier to read than
> generated Java source code.
>
> The ANTLR Tool would generate both the textual representation (for the
> debugger to reference) and the classfiles (that contain the references
> to the textual representation) at compile time.

Verrrrry interesting idea.  I'll consider that approach.  Currently I 
have it working with generated DFA objects so I may leave for a while.

Ter
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