[antlr-interest] C# rules cannot return chars

[Micheal J]

Hi,

> Hi,
> 
> for the C# target, a rule like
> 
> test returns [ char value ] :
> 	'test' { $value = 'a'; }
> 	;
> 
> produces code whose compilation fails with
> 
> error CS0031: Constant value '0' cannot be converted to a 'char'
> 
> The work-around is obviously to return an object containing a 
> char, but 
> still, somebody might be interested in fixing the problem... 
> BTW what's 
> the official way to report ANTLR bugs (for the C# target)? 
> http://www.antlr.org:8888/browse/ANTLR sems to be read-only?
> 

You just did ;-)

Thanks for the report. Do you have a simple grammar that demonstrates this?


Micheal

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