2009/9/15 Gavin Lambert <an...@mirality.co.nz>
> At 23:41 15/09/2009, Kevin Twidle wrote:
> >I have been using my PonderTalk (Smalltalk like) language for a
> >while now and I have just noticed that leaving a block empty
> >causes a parser error. This is with ANTLRWorks 1.2.3. I have
>
...
>
> You should define an imaginary token to use as the root
> here. Things go a little strange when you try to use a
> multi-token rule as the root, especially (as you've found) if it's
> optional.
>
> tokens { BLOCK; }
>
> block : '[' sentences ']'
> -> ^(BLOCK sentences)
> ;
>
> Using imaginary tokens to indicate structure like this also helps
> when reading the tree (either via a tree parser or directly).
>
>
Thanks for the fast reply. Actually in my PonderTalk grammar I do have
those tokens. I have now added the token to my example and it still fails
with:
hello. [ ]. bye
The input of ANTLRWorks shows:
hello.[]
Ah! It does crash I wasn't looking at the output of ANTLRWorks (it's not in
the console):
line 1:6 no viable alternative at character ' '
line 1:8 no viable alternative at character ' '
line 1:11 no viable alternative at character ' '
Exception in thread "main"
org.antlr.runtime.tree.RewriteEmptyStreamException: rule sentences
at
org.antlr.runtime.tree.RewriteRuleElementStream._next(RewriteRuleElementStream.java:158)
at
org.antlr.runtime.tree.RewriteRuleElementStream.nextTree(RewriteRuleElementStream.java:145)
at TrialParser.block(TrialParser.java:504)
at TrialParser.sentence(TrialParser.java:395)
at TrialParser.sentences(TrialParser.java:211)
at TrialParser.sentences(TrialParser.java:248)
at TrialParser.start(TrialParser.java:116)
at __Test__.main(__Test__.java:14)
My grammar is now:
grammar Trial;
options {
output = AST;
k = 2;
}
tokens{
BLOCK = '_block';
}
start : sentences EOF
;
sentences
: sentence? (DOT sentences)?
-> sentence? sentences?
;
sentence: WORD | block;
block : '[' sentences ']'
-> ^(BLOCK sentences)
;
WORD : LETTER LETTER+;
LETTER : 'a'..'z';
DOT : '.';
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