[antlr-interest] Enhancement request for identifying imaginarytokens

Terence Parr parrt at cs.usfca.edu
Fri Dec 14 10:09:23 PST 2007


On Dec 14, 2007, at 10:04 AM, Hardy, Stephen wrote:

> Hi Terence,
>
> Understood, but with a large grammar it becomes a bit tedious to
> explicitly put for all imaginary tokens.  Also, there is often no
> convenient token to co-opt for the purpose.  I thought being able to
> specify a default of the "start" token (whatever it may be) would be
> useful for most folks, provided there was the option to override the
> token assignment as you showed below, with the usual [] syntax.

Possibly.  Are you overusing imaginary tokens though?  Seems you  
create one for every rewrite.  Why not just ref existing token?

Ter


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