sorry, hit send...
when you have a sentence:
"foo, bar"
antlr tokenises that to be [foo],[,],[bar]
so the DSL won't pick up "foo," - perhaps if the comma was on its own it
works? I am interested to know...
I guess we need to formulate some semantics about what is punctuation in a
DSL.
On 4/5/06, Michael Neale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Thanks. I have a feeling that it is due to antlr:
> When you ahve a sentence
>
>
>
> On 4/5/06, Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
> >
> > Will do. I'll add the test case to the ones you have already.
> >
> > On 4/5/06, Michael Neale < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > can you put it in a JIRA - should be easy enough to take care of.
> > >
> > > On 4/5/06, Paul Smith < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I just wanted to check this. It appears that a comma is not valid in
> > the
> > > > domain specific language. I can see that it is part of the syntax on
> > the
> > > > expression but it should be valid in the domain specific language.
> > ie)
> > > >
> > > > In my dsl file I have the following
> > > >
> > > > [when]There is something, that we want to check=String()
> > > > [then]Check it=System.out.println("Checked");
> > > >
> > > > and the drl file
> > > >
> > > > package testing
> > > >
> > > > import java.lang.String
> > > >
> > > > expander comma_test.dsl
> > > >
> > > > rule "Comma test rule"
> > > >
> > > > when
> > > > There is something, that we want to check
> > > > then
> > > > Check it
> > > > end
> > > >
> > > > The comma causes the rule build to fail. It's probably not a big
> > issue
> > > but
> > > > as your language library builds, you will probably want to introduce
> > > > punctuation for readability. If I remove the comma from the .dsl so
> > that
> > > > the
> > > > statement reads "There is something that we want to check"
> > everything is
> > > > fine.
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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