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Syntactic sugar with assigned actions [message #1256294]

Tue, 25 February 2014 09:29

Daniels Umanovskis

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Registered: February 2014

Junior Member

I'm working with a more complex grammar, but my case can be boiled down to the following example.

Suppose I have Foo objects and Bar objects that my DSL can describe. Foo objects are standalone, Bar objects are created to correspond to Foo objects, so the grammar is like:

FooExpression :
'foo' name = ID
('{'
	//some optional parameters
'}')?
;

BarExpression : 
'bar' 'for' nameLink = ID ('as' name = ID)?
;

BarExpression uses the ID terminal and not a proper cross-link to Foo because that's a constraint in my actual use-case, but that should not be relevant here.

So this grammar lets you write things like:

foo myFoo1
foo myFoo2

bar for myFoo1 as myBar1
bar for myFoo2

Now, I would like to also have a syntactic sugar element that would translate to creating a Foo and a Bar for it. That is, I imagine I would write:

sugar myFoo3

and that would exactly correspond to

foo myFoo3
bar for myFoo3

The impression I got from Xtext's doc is that assigned actions are for creating and assigning objects of other rules, so my guess at the grammar element was:

SyntaxSugar :
'sugar' name=ID
{FooExpression.name=current.name}
{BarExpression.nameLink=current.name}
;

That's not a valid element though, and in fact it seems like accessing fields of current is not possible.

How do I define my syntactic sugar element correctly?

[Updated on: Tue, 25 February 2014 13:31]

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