[antlr-interest] syntactic predicates and exceptions

[Nagesh, Harsha]

Code readability/ability to debug does not have to be conditional to the use of antlr studio ;)
not everybody will use it and there could be other tools such as antlr works that people may be
interested and may support a different set of features compared to AS.
 
Harsha

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From: antlr-interest-bounces at antlr.org [mailto:antlr-interest-bounces at antlr.org]On Behalf Of Prashant Deva
Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 6:02 AM
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Subject: Re: [antlr-interest] syntactic predicates and exceptions



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 <  <mailto:antlr at shmuelhome.mine.nu> 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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