[antlr-interest] Can't get "\<" to work in inline template rule?

[Terence Parr]

Using inline templates is not really my intent...I suggest using a  
template group file.  bug has been entered thoug.
Ter
On Apr 16, 2008, at 6:54 AM, Peter Nann wrote:

> Oh, I have just got it to work using the "<<" and ">>" delimiters,  
> which seem to be directly replacable in place of double-quotes, even  
> on a single line.
>
> But the lack of support in the double-quoted format is a bug, yes?
>
> From: antlr-interest-bounces at antlr.org [mailto:antlr-interest-bounces at antlr.org 
> ] On Behalf Of Peter Nann
> Sent: Wednesday, 16 April 2008 11:41 PM
> To: antlr-interest at antlr.org
> Subject: [antlr-interest] Can't get "\<" to work in inline template  
> rule?
>
>
> Just starting out with what I hope should be a simple translator…
>
> For now, as a start, I am simply trying to turn:
>         [ a ]
> Into:
>         <one-of> a </one-of>
>
> But I can't get an angle bracket verbatim in the output!!!
>
> In the code below, you will see I am only trying to produce the  
> first '<'.
> Simply escaping the '<' does not seem to work as advertised…
> I have tried double, triple escaping, to no avail.
>  - Take the "\<" out of this grammar, and it works fine.
>
> Please help, I am a little dissappointed to have run into trouble so  
> early…
> Woe is me…
>
>
> Here's my Test.g file:
>
> ---- Test.g ----
> grammar Test;
> options {output=template; rewrite=true;}
>
> gslfile : orlist ;
>
> orlist
>         : '[' WORD ']'
>                 -> template(oi={$WORD.text}) "\<one-of <oi> /one-of"
>         ;
>
> WORD : ('a'..'z'|'-'|'_'|'\'') ('a'..'z'|'-'|'_'|'\'')* ;
> WS : ( ' ' | '\t' | '\r' | '\n' )+ {$channel = HIDDEN;} ;
> -----------------------------------------
>
> And here's the error output:
>
> ANTLR Parser Generator  Version 3.0.1 (August 13, 2007)  1989-2007
> error(10):  internal error: Test.g : Test.g:8:34: expecting '"',  
> found '<'
> org.antlr.tool.ANTLRLexer.nextToken(ANTLRLexer.java:321)
> antlr 
> .TokenStreamRewriteEngine.nextToken(TokenStreamRewriteEngine.java:161)
> antlr.TokenBuffer.fill(TokenBuffer.java:69)
> antlr.TokenBuffer.LT(TokenBuffer.java:86)
> antlr.LLkParser.LT(LLkParser.java:56)
> org.antlr.tool.ANTLRParser.rewrite_template(ANTLRParser.java:3306)
> org.antlr.tool.ANTLRParser.rewrite_alternative(ANTLRParser.java:3177)
> org.antlr.tool.ANTLRParser.rewrite(ANTLRParser.java:1885)
> org.antlr.tool.ANTLRParser.altList(ANTLRParser.java:1451)
> org.antlr.tool.ANTLRParser.rule(ANTLRParser.java:1236)
> org.antlr.tool.ANTLRParser.rules(ANTLRParser.java:655)
> org.antlr.tool.ANTLRParser.grammar(ANTLRParser.java:389)
> org.antlr.tool.Grammar.setGrammarContent(Grammar.java:521)
> org.antlr.tool.Grammar.<init>(Grammar.java:456)
> org.antlr.Tool.getGrammar(Tool.java:331)
> org.antlr.Tool.process(Tool.java:267)
> org.antlr.Tool.main(Tool.java:70)
>
>