[antlr-interest] Access to lexer warning/error messages afterparsing
Edwards, Waverly
Waverly.Edwards at genesys.com
Tue Jul 1 11:30:15 PDT 2008
I see.
I understand.
I learned something.
I concede.
I thank you.
W.
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From: Jim Idle [mailto:jimi at temporal-wave.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 2:20 PM
To: Edwards, Waverly
Cc: antlr-interest at antlr.org
Subject: Re: [antlr-interest] Access to lexer warning/error messages
afterparsing
On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 12:42 -0400, Edwards, Waverly wrote:
Wouldn't it be wise to just let the lexical error go and let the
parser
catch it.
Any invalid character isn't really recoverable and since the
user has to
fix it
anyway, it will just show up a misplaced identifier, number or
symbol as
far as the
parser is concerned. Also if you store the lexical error,
you'll end up
reporting
the error twice... once as a lexical error and once as a parse
error.
if you do not report both, then sometimes the error from the parser will
be very confusing. so, if you intercept an illegal character in the
lexer, you can first print - or store in a collection ;-0 - the position
of the character that threw things out;
xxx.hhh parameter
line 17, offset 4, illegal character 0x7ff
then the parser says;
line 17, offset 5 - near 'hhh' expecting '.'
without the lexer pointing out that you have the wrong '.' - i didn't
look up what 0x7ff actually is, this is just an example of course - you
would need a few glances at this to realize what had happened.
jim
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