[antlr-interest] Value types - can't be set to null in C#

Cameron Esfahani dirty at apple.com
Mon Jan 7 18:06:50 PST 2008


I remember seeing a similar problem with typedef-ed structures in the  
C backend.  It was initializing them to NULL and my compiler didn't  
like that...

On Jan 7, 2008, at 4:50 PM, Terence Parr wrote:

>
> On Jan 7, 2008, at 3:38 PM, Johannes Luber wrote:
>
>> The default is, as you see, null. Adding new types to this  
>> structure is
>> an open-ended task. So we'd need a new way to tell ANTLR, that  
>> there is
>> a special case. Maybe "prog: dt(DateTime.MinValue)=datetime"? Ter?
>
> I'd rather not add syntax for this.  If it's not a built-in type,  
> all defaults can be null for objects, right?
>
> Ter

Cameron Esfahani
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