Re: Preview in grammar

Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich@compuserve.de>
9 May 2006 00:52:22 -0400

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From: Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich@compuserve.de>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 9 May 2006 00:52:22 -0400
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 06-05-011
Keywords: parse
Posted-Date: 09 May 2006 00:52:22 EDT

Ulrich Frank wrote:


> I need a preview which token comes next in an uncomplete input string.
> For example when you type "select abc" the preview would be "from". Or
> in "select abc from def where abc" the preview would be "<, <=, >, >=,
> equals".


Do you mean the next token from the input stream, or the set of
acceptable tokens at the current parser state?


>
> I already looked at
> - ANTLR (LL) which does not provide this funcionality
> - JavaCC (LL) provides it
> - JavaCUP (LALR) does not provide
> - SableCC (LALR) provides it


Have a look at CoCo/R. It's "only" a LL(1) parser generator, but it
might be appropriate to answer your questions.


DoDi


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