[antlr-interest] ANTLR 3.0 beta 2 released

[Terence Parr]

Hi,

After a furious coding session, 3.0b2 is available.

http://www.antlr.org/download/antlr-3.0b2.tar.gz

The changes:

http://www.antlr.org/v3/README.txt

It is getting pretty damn good.  Here is my brand new Java 1.5  
grammar (some of it Java spec was typed by Dieter).  Very close to  
spec with bugs fixed and some clean up and LL-sanitizing:

http://www.antlr.org/grammar/1152141644268/java.g

The new feature (a big one) is the backtrack=true option for grammar,  
rule, block 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.  Syn pred code is not generated if the pred is not  
used in a decision. This is essentially a rapid prototyping mode.  It  
is what I have used on the java.g.  Oh, it doesn't memoize partial  
parses (i.e., rule parsing results) during backtracking automatically  
now.  You must also say memoize=true.  Can make a HUGE difference to  
turn on.

Enjoy.

Ter
PS	Progress is being made on other targets but nothing complete yet.