[antlr-interest] specialStateTransition too big for Java(AntLR3)
Ulf Ochsenfahrt
ulf at ofahrt.de
Sat Aug 11 12:55:40 PDT 2007
Jim Idle wrote:
> Show us your lexer rules and maybe we can help simplify them a little.
> That usually helps as you can express the differences in a more natural
> manner and reduce the number of lexer states.
>
> Jim
Sure.
The grammar is here:
http://users.conquer-space.net/~ulf/jphp/Php.g3
(for now, I assume that the grammar falls under the PHP license)
The state enum for the lexer is here:
http://users.conquer-space.net/~ulf/jphp/LexicalState.java
If you want to compile the parser, you'll have to remove the actions
from the parser rules.
The lexer is far from complete, and it needs several states (I count 13
different states in the original PHP grammar). If you know a way to
achieve the same with fewer or no lexer states, I'd be very interested
to hear that.
The goal is for the grammar to accept the same language as the original
PHP grammar. I believe that it does not do it right now: the keywords
probably also need to be predicated on the current lexer state. I havn't
tested it, but at this time, they probably also match T_INLINE_HTML tokens.
Any feedback is welcome.
Cheers,
-- Ulf
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