The grammar below won't compile, this looks like a bug to me? It seems that the syntactic predicate automatically generated by the backtrack option includes the rule parameter but doesn't have a declaration for it. The error I get is:
[08:49:44] 1 error [08:50:01] C:\Temp\output\TestParser.java:548: cannot find symbol [08:50:01] symbol : variable $program [08:50:01] location: class TestParser [08:50:01] rule($program.tree); ===================================================== grammar Test; options { output=AST; backtrack=true; } program : 'raw'? ( ID->ID ) ( rule[$program.tree] -> rule )* | 'raw' ID ; rule[Object tree] : 'some' ID ; // LEXER // ========================================== ID : ('a'..'z'|'A'..'Z'|'_') ('a'..'z'|'A'..'Z'|'0'..'9'|'_')* ; WS : ( ' ' | '\t' | '\r' | '\n' ) {$channel=HIDDEN;} ; -- View this message in context: http://antlr.1301665.n2.nabble.com/Possible-bug-with-backtrack-generated-predicate-methods-tp7033324p7033324.html Sent from the ANTLR mailing list archive at Nabble.com. 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 il-antlr-inter...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to il-antlr-interest+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/il-antlr-interest?hl=en.