[antlr-interest] detecting transitions in stanza-based files

[Bryan Ewbank]

Richard,

That's really rather elegant.  I have to remember that idiom.

On 5/10/05, Richard Clark <rdclark at nextquestion.net> wrote:
> stanza
>      :    STANZA
>          {  // Classify this according to length
>              AST probe = #stanza;
>              int length = 0;
>              while (probe != null) {
>                  probe = probe.getNextSibling();
>                  length++;
>              }
>              if (length > 3)
>                  #stanza = (#[LONG_LINE, "long"], #stanza);
>              else
>                  #stanza = (#[SHORT_LINE, "short"], #stanza);
>        }
>      ;