[antlr-interest] syntactic predicates and exceptions

Prashant Deva prashant.deva at gmail.com
Thu Oct 20 03:02:06 PDT 2005


Nigel,
The code will still be readable, although difficult to debug.
My point is that if you are using somehting like ANTLR Studio then it doesnt
matter how readable/unreadable the code is.

PRASHANT

On 10/20/05, shmuel siegel <antlr at shmuelhome.mine.nu> wrote:
>
> Nigel Sheridan-Smith wrote:
> > I don't want to weigh in to this argument too much, but I do want to
> mention
> > one point.
> >
> > If you remove exception handling for back-tracking, there is one risk:
> the
> > readability of the code (and hence the ease of debugging and tracing)
> will
> > be reduced.
> >
> Don't underestimate this point. The readability is one of the main
> selling points of antlr. At least that is how I get away with using it
> in a yacc shop.
>
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Prashant Deva
Creator, ANTLR Studio, http://www.antlrstudio.com
Founder, Placid Systems


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Prashant Deva
Creator, ANTLR Studio, http://www.antlrstudio.com
Founder, Placid Systems
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