[antlr-interest] ANTLR 3 Lexical States
Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
lilypondtool at organum.hu
Fri Jan 25 02:21:06 PST 2008
My Antlr grammar I'm migrating to Antlr 3 heavily uses lexical states,
that is, the Lexer has lots of semantic predicates to distinguish
between alternatives like this
STRING: {inState(States.NORMAL)}? LETTER+
SPECIAL_STRING: {inState(States.SPECIAL)}? LETTER+
The states are set during the parse process, like this
special_handling: "\special" { setState(States.SPECIAL); } SPECIAL_STRING;
It worked perfectly well in Anltr 2. However, now I'm a bit afraid that
the Antlr 3 style lexing will make this not work.
What do you think?
Thank you,
Bertalan Fodor
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