[antlr-interest] Switching keywords
Loring Craymer
lgcraymer at yahoo.com
Tue Sep 5 10:04:24 PDT 2006
What do you mean by "on top of"? Do you mean that "A" statements are embedded in "B" programs? Or that "B" compiles to "A"?
If you just need to handle tokens that are keywords in one context and not another, then these are best handled as
keyword
:
{ LT(1).getText().equals("keyword") }? TEXT
;
and then use "keyword" in the appropriate context. Semantic predicate hoisting is very handy, and "is a keyword only in context" is a common problem.
--Loring
Sean Walton <swalton at cs.utah.edu> wrote: [This is for anyone that can answer this problem.]
I am building a language (B) on top of another language (A). This
causes a particular problem with any new reserved words defined in
Language B. For example, if there needs to be a reserved word 'set' in
Language B, but when in the context of Language A, 'set' still needs to
be an identifier.
Does anyone have any ideas how to do this?
-Sean Walton
PS. The real development is honestly more complicated than the above:
there is a third language (C) involved. Why? I guess I like pain.... ;)
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