[antlr-interest] philosophy about translation

[Terence Parr]

On Nov 1, 2006, at 12:58 PM, Andy Tripp wrote:
>> You aren't.  You need to generate int n=0 and n++ code so you  
>> know  what's up. ;)
>
> Or better yet, just call some sort of astNode.getChildCount()  
> method while walking the AST :)
>
> So, to sum up...when I have
> ...( statement )+...
> Not only do I not want to have to figure out and then generate the  
> "n-type-code" is that I need to
> embedd in the ANTLR-generated code, I don't even want to walk the  
> tree and call astNode.getChildCount()!

Or, better yet:

statement+[4]

to match just 4.  Better than using code. ;)

> Guess I'm just being difficult :)

Good on you!  I'm always difficult ;)

Ter