Re: Flex/Bison/ANTLR question... alternative tools for translation?

On 31 Mar 2005 23:29:09 -0500 in comp.compilers, rgaupsas
<elikon@cox.net> wrote:


>>>>>I'm working on a translator whereby the input grammar is poorly
>>>>>defined; a lot is contextually dependent. ...


>>>Sorry, my choice of the term COLOR was poor for this example. COLOR,
>>>NAME, and PARAM can all be alpha-numeric combination. So a list of valid
>>>terms is not applicable.


>If I understand your question... there are no semantic differences. The
>following would all be valid:
> za dog plane4 result=56.0
> ztop all1 rick34 jane cat65abc car truck value=30e3
> zhill car_34 table jet bug bear_45 num=34
>The associated regular expression that would match COLOR NAME and PARAM is:
> [a-z0-9]+[_a-z0-9]*


Okay, all three non-terminal symbols match the same lexical pattern;
and PARAM is followed by = then a NUMBER; so how, and/or why, can you,
and/or do you, distinguish between COLOR and NAME i.e. how can you
tell looking at the test data?


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Thanks. Take care, Brian Inglis Calgary, Alberta, Canada


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