Why do you want the SEMI in your AST?

Jim

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> boun...@antlr.org] On Behalf Of David Smith
> Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2011 4:41 AM
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> Subject: [antlr-interest] AST with optional parameters
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> 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-
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