[antlr-interest] newbie question

[Randall R Schulz]

On Wednesday 04 July 2007 16:13, ali azimi wrote:
> Dear Randall,
>
>   Thank you so much. I am very grateful for all the help you have
> provided me.

I'm happy to help.

Now perhaps you could help others in turn.

Messages to mailing lists with subjects like "newbie question" (you've 
sent two of these today!) are very uninformative. It's far preferable 
to put something specific in the subject. For example, for your first 
question, something like "How do I include an apostrophe in a quoted 
string?" would be suitable. For the second one (harder, admittedly) 
perhaps "Help understanding ANTLR syntax error" (since that' really all 
you have to go on, I take it).

Please try to keep in mind that mailing lists are not just 
ephemeral, "stream of consciousness" things, but rather permanent 
records of the attempts of a community of users' to use some particular 
software. When people use Google or other search service to look for 
help before themselves resorting to a list posting, meaningful subject 
headers will help them find knowledge that's already out there. That's 
something we all prefer to do, right? Help ourselves? Avoid burdening 
others?


> ...
>
>   Al


Randall Schulz