[antlr-interest] Can subrules be set to 'n-to-m'?
Terence Parr
parrt at cs.usfca.edu
Sat Mar 26 17:48:35 PST 2005
On Mar 26, 2005, at 1:42 PM, John D. Mitchell wrote:
>> That may be so, but I'd kill for a lexer right now that could handle
>> common left prefixes without requiring syntactic predicates (like I
>> want
>> a load of exception-based backtracking on every token). There are some
>> clever things you can do with a LL(k) based lexer but there are also
>> some
>> very basic things that you can do with lex that are an absolute
>> nightmare
>> with antlr. Hopefully the DFA-based LL(*) algorithm for antlr3 will
>> sort
>> most of this.
>
> Yeah, the LL* stuff seems to kick ass on that sort of thing.
>
> Do you have some good examples of some easy-using-lex constructs
> readily at
> hand? Those would be good for us to keep in mind as we beat on Antlr
> v3.
FYI, for the new java.g used in version 3.0 antlr, I just took the
language spec's definition of float etc... and stuck in. ANTLR said
"ok" :) Hooray!
Ter
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