[antlr-interest] status

[Terence Parr]

Just to let you know what I've been working on last week (and being  
silent):

backtrack mode that let's you type in any old crap and ANTLR will  
backtrack if it can't figure out what you meant.  No errors are  
reported by antlr during analysis.  It implicitly adds a syn pred in  
front of every production, using them only if static grammar LL(*)  
analysis fails.

A java 1.5 grammar from the spec. that is clean and readable...was  
started by Dieter Frej and I played around heavily looking at a  
variety of sources.

I experimented a great deal with Rats!, the PEG generator and  
converted it's java grammar to ANTLR v3 to see how well ANTLR could  
deal with it.  Whence, the backtrack mode.  That damn Rats! tool is  
fast!

I have a few big bugs queued up; thanks for the email...

I hope to have b2 out in a day or two.

Ter