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End of line grammar difficulty [SOLVED] [message #1186656]

Thu, 14 November 2013 15:33

Eclipse User

Hello All,

I have a simple language made up of one line statements, necessarily separated by a newline. Here are the relevant segments of the grammar:

Model:
	{Model}
	EOL*
	(includes += Include)*
	(elements += TopLevelElement)*
;

Include:
	'#include' importURI=STRING EOL+
;

TopLevelElement:
	(Macro | Instruction | Label) EOL+
;

EOL:
	NEWLINE | SL_COMMENT;

terminal SL_COMMENT:
	'//' !('\n'|'\r')* ('\r'? '\n')?;
	
terminal NEWLINE:
	('\r'? '\n');

My grammar implementation almost gives me the behavior I want, but the problem is that it requires an EOL character after the last TopLevelElement. I'd like to be able to not have to enter a newline or comment at the end of every document. Is there a way I can revise my grammar to achieve this?

Thanks,
Tom

[Updated on: Mon, 18 November 2013 11:12] by Moderator

Re: End of line grammar difficulty [message #1187730 is a reply to message #1186656]

Fri, 15 November 2013 03:49

Eclipse User

Hi,

have you considered *not* making the line breaks explicit? You could simply disallow multi line comments and line breaks in Strings.

Alex

Re: End of line grammar difficulty [message #1194633 is a reply to message #1187730]

Mon, 18 November 2013 11:10

Eclipse User

I was able to revise my grammar and achieve the behavior I was looking for. For anyone curious, here is what the grammar looks like now:

Model:
	{Model}
	EOL*
	(includes += Include EOL+)*
	(elements += TopLevelElement EOL+)*
	(elements += TopLevelElement)?
;

Include:
	'#include' importURI=STRING
;

TopLevelElement:
	(Macro | Instruction | Label)
;

EOL:
	NEWLINE | SL_COMMENT;

terminal SL_COMMENT:
	'//' !('\n'|'\r')* ('\r'? '\n')?;
	
terminal NEWLINE:
	('\r'? '\n');

[Updated on: Mon, 18 November 2013 11:11] by Moderator

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