[antlr-interest] empty alternatives erroneously consume tokens

[Michael Brade]

On Thursday 02 March 2006 11:31, Alexey Demakov wrote:
> 2. _tokenSet_68 contains all tokens that can be after cont() rule.
> So, if it is full grammar, _tokenSet_68 is empty. It causes
> line 7:1: unexpected token: null
>
> 3. Try to add EOF at the end of c_expression() rule:
> c_expression : (c_atom|c_bracket_exp|c_prefix_exp) cont EOF;
> I'm sure it will solve the problem.
Thanks for the answer, it made me realize the problem! EOF did not help, but 
the key is indeed the FOLLOW set: if I embed the c_expression rule within 
another rule that is not recursive, e.g.
  
   expression: c_expression;

and thus has an empty follow set, then it works :)

Thanks a lot,
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