It was not in any earlier message than the one I replied to. MATLAB is such an abysmal language ;-)
Jim *From:* Bart Kiers [mailto:[email protected]] *Sent:* Tuesday, June 07, 2011 10:14 AM *To:* Jim Idle *Cc:* [email protected] *Subject:* Re: [antlr-interest] AST with optional parameters Jim, >From an earlier message, David wrote: *"**Yes, the language is Matlab and a semicolon on the end of an assignment expression suppresses display of the result of the assignment. ...**"* Bart. On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Jim Idle <[email protected]> wrote: Why do you want the SEMI in your AST? Jim > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:antlr-interest- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of David Smith > Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2011 4:41 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [antlr-interest] AST with optional parameters > > I'm parsing a grammar in which the semicolon on the end of a line is > optional. So two of the statement rules might be: > | (ID GETS expr SEMI) => ID GETS expr SEMI -> ^(GETS ID expr > SEMI) > | (ID GETS) => ID GETS expr -> ^(GETS ID expr) > Since this occurs with a number of different assignment statements, I > would really like to collapse this into one rule that looks something > like this: > | (ID GETS) => ID GETS e=expr (s=SEMI)? -> ^(GETS ID $e $s) > but every implementation I can think of either refuses to generate the > grammar or, as in the case above, generates the grammar but decides > that the variable 's' is unknown. > Is there a any way to achieve this? > > DMS > > David M. Smith http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/David.Smith > Georgia Institute of Technology, College of Computing Sent from my ASR- > 33 Teletype > > > List: http://www.antlr.org/mailman/listinfo/antlr-interest > Unsubscribe: http://www.antlr.org/mailman/options/antlr-interest/your- > email-address List: http://www.antlr.org/mailman/listinfo/antlr-interest Unsubscribe: http://www.antlr.org/mailman/options/antlr-interest/your-email-address List: http://www.antlr.org/mailman/listinfo/antlr-interest Unsubscribe: http://www.antlr.org/mailman/options/antlr-interest/your-email-address -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "il-antlr-interest" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/il-antlr-interest?hl=en.
