Re: Grammar for variable and method declarations.

wooks wrote:


> How do you define a grammar where you have a class construct that
> starts with a list of instance variables and method declarations for a
> language like Java.


Do what I /think/ they do with Java: make the syntax more liberal,
so that you can get a clean grammar, and disallow the excessively
liberal constructs later (for some value of "later").


> The particular difficulty is that both start
>
> public/private datatype id and are not distinguishable until the 4th
> token.
>
> I have tried left factoring and I end up getting conflicts on my when
> I declare my method and instance variable lists?


Example?


> Are there some general principles for these situations. Very new to
> all this.


The grammar and grammar tools are your servants, not your masters.


Just because you /can/ do it in the grammar doesn't mean you /must/
do it in the grammar.


--
Chris "electric hedgehog" Dollin
"- born in the lab under strict supervision -", - Magenta, /Genetesis/

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