[antlr-interest] Re: build issues: bytecode assembly generation

Sebastian Kaliszewski sk at z.pl
Fri Oct 22 07:46:31 PDT 2004


Don Caton wrote:
[snip]
> Yes, and that's the reason I raised the issue.  Whenever you have to resort
> to a hack in order to work around a fundamental language limitation, that
> (IMO) calls into question whether the right language is being used for the
> job.  It seems curious that Java has a goto in its runtime but no way to
> express that in the language.
> 


The thing is that the problem touches not the ANTLR itself, but the code 
generated by ANTLR from user grammar (.g) files. Athe only other option 
would be to not generate Java at all, which is, given the ANTLR's user base 
not an option at all.

rgds
-- 
Sebastian Kaliszewski



 
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