[antlr-interest] Tree Blocks,

[Craig Main]

Hi,

 

It is quite common practice to introduce a virtual root node into a tree to
allow predicates and other constructs to work properly.

For instance:

 

   #( TOK_IF expr ( statement )* ( TOK_ELSE ( statement )* )? ) With this:

   #( TOK_IF expr #(BLOCK (statement)* ) ( #(BLOCK (statement)* ) ) )? )

 

Is there any good documentation on this practice?

I am a little unsure of the how's and whyfore's of this construct. Is there
some good documentation on the #BLOCK thing and how and what exactly is
meant by 

 

{#block = #([BLOCK, "block"], #block);}

 

I don't' really understand it, even though I am using it.

Does the above statement always introduce a virtual parent root node?

 

I have been told to make the change above to allow syntactic predicates to
work correctly on the if and else part of the statement, which makes sense.
I would just like to understand it better.

 

Regards

Craig

 

 

 

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