[antlr-interest] Handling 'finally' in language target that doesn't have 'finally'

Gavin Lambert antlr at mirality.co.nz
Mon Jan 19 11:53:57 PST 2009


At 08:39 20/01/2009, Rick Mann wrote:
 >In a language like C++, which stupidly doesn't support
 >"finally", what's the right way to write a grammar? To just
 >not use "finally" in it, and use init & after? Is there a
 >way to signal to ANTLR (from the back-end implementation)
 >that finally should not be allowed?

There's actually no technical reason (from a language standpoint) 
why "finally" couldn't be supported in C/C++ language targets 
(apart from the fact that there isn't a C++ target yet for v3).

I don't know if it *is* actually supported, but it could be.



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