I don't see this as an ambiguity issue but rather a decision of whether
your grammar uses reserved words or not.
I'm not an expert by any means but that doesn't mean I don't have an
opinion just that you should take it with a grain of salt.
You can either handle this with a symbol table later in the process or
rewrite the requestline to something like
requestline : ver EQUAL (SPECIAL_STRING | ver);
Joe
Achint Mehta wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> The section "Ambiguities and Non determinisms" of the book "The
> definitive ANTLR guide" talks about the ambiguities in lexer rules,
> but I am not sure how to resolve them.
>
> Consider a following grammar which assigns a value to an ID. The ID
> can either be VERSION or COUNT while its value can be anything:
> -----------------------------------------------
> grammar sample_parser;
>
> requestline : ver EQUAL SPECIAL_STRING ;
>
> /* Tokens */
> ver:('VERSION'| 'V') {}
> | ('COUNT' | 'C') {} ;
>
>
> SPECIAL_STRING:(CHAR)+ ;
> WHITESPACE: ' ';
> NEWLINE: ('\r')? '\n';
> EQUAL: '=';
>
> fragment
> CHAR: (('a'..'z')|('A'..'Z'));
> -----------------------------------------------
>
> If the input is given as
> VERSION=FIRST
> Then it works, but if following input is given
> VERSION=VERSION
> Then I get an error (MissingTokenException after the "=").
>
> How can this ambiguity be resolved ?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards,
> Achint
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