[antlr-interest] Grammar composition in v3, multiple packages, no joy

[Christian Nentwich]

> Language L1    -    lives in a Java project, with grammar L1.g; usable

> > standalone
> > Language L2    -    lives in another Java project, with grammar L2.g;
> > extends L1
> Have you tried making your actual rules just imports such that L1.g
> contains no rules, but defines the headers and package and so on then
> imports l1rules.g and L2.g also contains no rules but imports l1rules.g,
> l2rules.g
> Obviously l1rules.g and l2rules.g cannot be used on their own and are
> specifically for imports with no @header statements and options etc.
>

Very good idea, I will give that a try and see how it goes. If that works,
and Ter gives me a wiki login, I'll document that on there as well.


> > p.s. to pay my debts I wanted to post on confluence how to get case
> > insensitive parsers using ANTLR3 with JFlex, but it seems
> > editing/commenting
> > is locked down. Any reason why?
> You would want to add that as a child page of the case insensitive lexing
> article that is already there:
>

Sounds like an idea. The ideas currently on that page IMO do not scale to a
grammar of any size.

Christian


> http://www.antlr.org/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=1782
>
> I think that you just have to ask Ter for a login - you cannot edit as
> anonymous as the pages are filled with SPAM 10 seconds after we open up it
> up :-)
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