[antlr-interest] BUG: Constant (literal) token is incorrectly assumed to be present in AST rewrite
Austin Hastings
Austin_Hastings at Yahoo.com
Wed Aug 13 18:06:49 PDT 2008
Howdy,
I have a C-like grammar with this entry:
conditional_expr
: logical_or ( '?' expression ':' conditional_expr )?
-> ^( '?' logical_or expression? conditional_expr?)
;
I am using antlr v3.1. In this case, the generated code assumes that the
rewrite-rule's '?' token is the same as the possibly-nonexistent '?' in
the matching rule, and tries to dereference the "stream" that would
contain that token, if it were present.
In the case where no conditional expression is present, the rewrite
should collapse into ^( '?' logical_or )
I suspect that there's a better way to handle this particular rewrite
scenario. I'd like to hear it.
At the same time, this is pretty clearly a bug: antlr is confusing two
tokens that look the same, but one of which doesn't exist.
=Austin
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