[antlr-interest] Complete ANTLR 4 grammar for ANTLR 4?

Terence Parr parrt at cs.usfca.edu
Fri Dec 30 16:45:11 PST 2011


On Dec 29, 2011, at 6:39 PM, Graham Wideman wrote:

> Probably for Terence:
> 
> I have lost track of the current state-of-play/plans on this issue.
> 
> Is there, (or is there a plan for), an ANTLR 4 grammar that completely specifies how to  digest the ANTLR 4 language itself?  (E.g.: avoids hand-written lexer.)

Sure. I think only ST uses a handbuilt lexer. Everything else uses ANTLR.  Sam Harwell is using v4 for the grammars inside AW2.  v4 pretty much sucks down any v3 grammar that I've run across.

Ter


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