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Same optional Modifiers at multiple alternatives [message #987230] Sat, 24 November 2012 19:41
Daniel Missing name is currently offline Daniel Missing nameFriend
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Registered: July 2011
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Hi community.

It's been a long time I was here but I just started to play around with Xtext again. In my language I can declare fields and method signatures. Both elements start with some optional modifiers, continue with a type and a name. Then the two elements have different parts. The field has an assignment and the method declares parameters. In short, this grammar rule:

Member returns PhaseMember:
    (
        // field
        {PhaseField}
        (
            visibility=PhaseVisibility? &
            static?='static'? &
            final?='final'?
        )
        type=JvmTypeReference
        name=ValidID
        ('=' initializer=XExpression)? ';'
        // field end
    |
        // method
        {PhaseMethod}
        (
            visibility=PhaseVisibility? &
            static?='static'? &
            abstract?='abstract'? &
            final?='final'? &
            override?='override'?
        )
        returnType=JvmTypeReference
        name=ValidID
        ('<' typeParameters+=JvmTypeParameter (',' typeParameters+=JvmTypeParameter)* '>')?
        '('
        (parameters+=Parameter (',' parameters+=Parameter)*)?
        ')'
        ('throws' exceptions+=JvmTypeReference (',' exceptions+=JvmTypeReference)* )?
        ';'
        // method end
    )
;


Experienced grammar writers will see immediatly: Without backtracking this leads to a non-LL(*) decision because of the modifiers.

I want to keep my grammar free of unneeded keywords and therefore I don't want to place a mandatory keyword (e.g. 'fun', 'def', 'var') in front of any element.

Does anybody of you know how I can get this grammar working without enabling (the evil) backtracking? I tried several combinations with predicates (=>) but nothing worked.

Looking forward to your suggestions.

Greetings
Daniel

[Updated on: Sat, 24 November 2012 19:44]

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