I'm having some trouble trying to work out the best approach for some
ambiguity.
If I have an identifier token defined as:
IDENTIFIER: ('A'..'Z' | 'a'..'z' | '_') ('A'..'Z' | 'a'..'z' | '_' |
'0'..'9')* ('$' | '!' | '&')?
Were the last part of the rule indicates an optional implicit type
character.
Unfortunately, "!" is also a binary operator that works with
identifiers. For example, the following is valid:
foo!bar
and indicates a ! operator with a left side of foo and right of bar.
This is only possible when the left side identifier doesn't end with a
implicit type character.
I was initially thinking of doing some token re-writing to determine if
an identifier (without an implicit type char) followed by a "!" is
followed by another identifier and then emit a separate "!" so that can
be picked up by the parser. But I'm not keen on doing this, as (as far
as I can see, please correct me if i'm wrong) this takes some of my
lexing rules out of my grammar and into another place, complicating any
maintenance on the grammar itself.
Is there a cleaner/different way to achieve this?
Cheers
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David Chipping
Anubex
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