[stringtemplate-interest] Re: [antlr-dev] length of bitset available?

[Terence Parr]

Cool. Is this something you need right away?  i'm overwhelmed with  
courses starting up again at the moment.
Ter
On Jan 21, 2006, at 1:11 PM, Kay Roepke wrote:

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> On 21. Jan 2006, at 22:01 Uhr, Terence Parr wrote:
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>> None that I could think of.  It then begs the question: what if I  
>> need number of bytes not words?  YOu'll want to be able to  
>> multiply by 4.  This is fine as long as it's a function of a  
>> length versus attribute property.  BUT, it opens up the syntax to  
>> general arith. expr and I then need to do analysis to figure out  
>> if you are doing salary*4.
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> That's really a question of the semantics of the program one  
> generates, is it not? I wouldn't expect ST to do that for me.
> I know I'm dealing with words, because that's what ANTLR spews out.  
> If I wanted to do bytes, I'd had to convert that myself. If ANTLR  
> would ever change to do bytes, my code
> would break nonetheless. Nice, because then there's no  
> justification to do arithmetics in ST, anyway ;)
>
>>> As long as there's no way of doing computations,
>>> it might shouldn't do any harm and be useful, too, for, say, page  
>>> flippers on web pages or so.
>>
>> Yup...i intend to add to 2.3; is it a function like <length(names) 
>> > like first(), rest()?  Seems like.  I don't think <names.length>  
>> is right nor <names:length()>.
>
> You're right, of course it should be consistent across the board. I  
> thing too much in terms of objects and methods nowadays...:)
>
> -k