[antlr-interest] ANTLR ActionScript target broken

[Jim Idle]

ActionScript has been orphaned as far as I can tell - you could try
emailing the original author of that target and see if they have any plans
to continue with it.

Jim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: antlr-interest-bounces at antlr.org [mailto:antlr-interest-
> bounces at antlr.org] On Behalf Of Stefan
> Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2011 2:48 PM
> To: antlr-interest at antlr.org
> Subject: [antlr-interest] ANTLR ActionScript target broken
>
> Hi,
>
> According to these instructions, I'm trying to use ANTLR generated *.as
> files in a current Flash Builder 4.5.1 project.
>
> Therefore, I added this ANTLR's Actionscript runtime to my project -
> without problems.
>
> I compiled lexer/parser specs using ANTLRWorks without problems too.
>
> I added the language option to the source *.g file to make ANTLR
> generate Actionscript sources:
>
> options {
>     backtrack = true;
>     memoize = true;
>     k=2;
>     output = AST;
>     language=ActionScript;        // Added this
>     ASTLabelType = CommonTree;
> }
> Unfortunately, the ANTLR/ANTLRworks generated Actionscript code is
> buggy:
>
> Catch statements read like this catch (RecognitionException re), but
> should read like this:catch ( re:RecognitionException ).
>
> Furthermore, Flash Builder complains about the use of Array here:
>
> public override function get tokenNames():Array { return
> PhpParser.tokenNames; } Besides this, other problems exist in the
> generated ActionScript sources. E.g. wrong function declaration,
> package declaration inside package, ChartStream.getLine() called
> instead of ChartStream.line(),...
>
> I checked ANTLR itself too. But the pure JAR renders the same problem.
> Thus, ANTLRworks isn't the problem, but ANTLR itself.
>
> Assuming that I did everything correct, I wonder if and when the ANTLR
> project may provide a bug fix.
>
> Ah, hints how to make the current ANTLR work with ActionScript, would
> be even better ;-)
>
>
> Kinds regards,
>
> S
>
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