[antlr-interest] Dynamic AST node

Jim Idle jimi at temporal-wave.com
Fri Sep 4 09:38:05 PDT 2009


Pass in the type as a parameter and use conditional rewrites or use  
the parameter as the node type in the rewrite.

Jim

On Sep 4, 2009, at 12:09 AM, Elnur Cabarov <elnur.j at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've got a rule that is called from multiple other rules. I want  
> dynamically modify AST node for every invocation.
>
> For example:
>
> variable
>     :    type ID -> ^(VARIABLE type ID);
>
> I want VARIABLE node be dynamic, that is it can also be PARAMETER  
> when called from somewhere else.
> My case is not as simple as this, so duplicating rules is not  
> acceptable.
> Also I'd prefer use dynamic attribute scopes, because rules are  
> nested into many levels and rule attributes are not desirable too :)
>
> Thanks
>
> -- 
> Elnur Cabarov
>
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