Thanks Lukas, and agree generating strings considering lookahead and !
should be very hard!
I dont know how one could generate valid string according to NOT and
Lookaheads.
cheers.


On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 7:23 AM, Lukas Renggli <reng...@gmail.com> wrote:

> The PetitParser UI [1] has the capability to display random examples of a
> selected production. Unfortunately the UI (and the example generating code)
> is only available in Smalltalk and hasn't been ported to other host
> languages. However, you can look at the code here [2] and play with the
> tool by downloading the one-click distribution [3].
>
> The example generating code is really short and simple (less than 30
> lines, the rest is markup from the export). There are a few (hardcoded)
> heuristics to make it produce a short and readable example.
>
> Note that the code ignores logical predicates (! and & expressions). I am
> not sure, if it is even possible to make them work in a generic case?
> Either way, I found that ignoring the predicates isn't as bad as it sounds.
> Predicates are rarely used in practice and do have a big effect on the
> resulting output (as long as you are aware of it).
>
> To summarise, I find the examples quite useful while developing new
> grammars. It allows one to quickly spot errors or edge-cases that might get
> missed otherwise.
>
> Cheers,
> Lukas
>
> [1] http://scg.unibe.ch/archive/papers/Reng10cDynamicGrammars.pdf (Section
> 3.5)
> [2]
> http://www.lukas-renggli.ch/dropbox/petitparser/libraries/PetitParser-Example.st
> [3] http://source.lukas-renggli.ch/built/oneclick/PetitParser-OneClick.zip
>
>
> On 4 September 2014 19:54, mathew palsberg <matpalsb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> I recently built a small language with PEG. I now want to test my
>> language with random generated(not necessarily meaningful) programs. Does
>> anybody know a tool that given a PEG grammar, it generates random sequences
>> that satisfy the given grammar?
>>
>> Thanks;
>>
>>
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