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New symbols for literals [message #1722577]

Sat, 06 February 2016 02:45

Daniel Cardin

Messages: 109
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

I have 100% succeeded in creating a new "Measure" Literal in my DSL.
The ~ "keyword" is a bit weird however.

I started exploring alternatives, like

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Re: New symbols for literals [message #1722578 is a reply to message #1722577]

Sat, 06 February 2016 02:51

Daniel Cardin

Messages: 109
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Well, it seems the forum does not like certain unicode characters Wink

I have tried using a character to "mark" my Measure Literal. It's currently the tilde ~ but I don't like it very much.
The new unicode character works perfectly, but there is no proposal in XBlockExpression... it's odd, considering my assignement: (set a.b.c = expression) works and proposes 'set' automatically.
Both rules are constructed exactly the same.

Can you think of a reason why certain expressions would have their initial keyword proposed in xbase and others not?

Assignment returns xbase::XExpression:
	{Assignment} 'set' address=DotExpression ('@' attribute=[Attribute] ('.' key=ID)?)? op=('='|':=') expression=(XExpression|XBlockExpression|Measure) 
;

Measure returns xbase::XExpression:
	{Measure} '~' measure=XNumberLiteral unit=ID
;

XPrimaryExpression returns xbase::XExpression:
	XConstructorCall |
	XBlockExpression |
	XSwitchExpression |
	XSynchronizedExpression |
	XFeatureCall |
	XLiteral |
	XIfExpression |
	XForLoopExpression |
	XBasicForLoopExpression |
	XWhileExpression |
	XDoWhileExpression |
	XThrowExpression |
	XReturnExpression |
	XTryCatchFinallyExpression |
	XParenthesizedExpression |
	Assignment | 
	Measure;

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Re: New symbols for literals [message #1722589 is a reply to message #1722578]

Sat, 06 February 2016 09:31

Christian Dietrich

Messages: 14665
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Hi first you can have a look at

XxxpropsalProvider. It should inherit a isKeyworthWorthyToPropose or
something like this method

And if you override rules you can do

Xxx:
super|MyAdditionalStuff

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