[antlr-interest] grammar problem with recursion?

[Kevin J. Cummings]

On 08/05/2010 11:41 PM, Dervin Thunk wrote:
> Hello. I am new to ANTLR. Below is a grammar I wrote, and I'm trying to
> test it with the following string, but it just stops before it even
> consumes the n_pp... identifier, so it stops at the "conjunction"
> rule. Any idea about what I could be doing wrong?

> conjunction
>        :       term
>        | (term '&' conjunction)
>        ;

Should be:

conjunction
	: term ('&' term)*
	;

Now you don't have any recursion....

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