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Ambiguous rules and Predicate behavior [message #1861641] Tue, 24 October 2023 23:25
Sohaib Hamioud is currently offline Sohaib HamioudFriend
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I am stuck with the following ambiguous rules in Xtext:

UnaryExpression returns ExpressionAtom:

..................

| EXISTS? '(' SelectStatement ')'

| '(' Expressions ')'
//nestedExpression
;

When I generate artifacts I get a warning about multiple alternatives. The '(' token is the source of ambiguity.

If I use a predicate "=>" to select the first alternative (i.e., the SelectStatement rule), I ended up with a never-reached alternative2. the SelectStatement rule starts with the 'select' keyword. I thought that if the selected alternative fails, the parser will automatically try the second alternative, but it seems that it is a one-way parsing. What should I do to force the parser to try other alternatives if the chosen one fails?
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