[antlr-interest] Antlrworks bug?

[Johannes Luber]

Steve Bennett wrote:
> Or maybe I don't understand. The test rig generated by Antlrworks for
> this grammar won't compile:
> 
> grammar tiny;
> tiny	:	('a'..'z')+;

It's no bug but a feature. ;) Joking aside, you can't do closures with
ranges in parser rules. The correct way is the one below.

> However this will compile:
> grammar tiny;
> L	:	('a'..'z');
> tiny	:	L+;
> 
> Using ANTLRworks 1.1.4.
> 
> Steve
> 

Johannes