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Use/migrate grammar of ANTLR3 in xtext, is possible? [message #758840]

Thu, 24 November 2011 16:56

Federico Sellanes

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Registered: November 2011

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I am wondering if i can use my antlr3 grammar in xtext or i need to transcribe all the grammar?.

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Re: Use/migrate grammar of ANTLR3 in xtext, is possible? [message #758852 is a reply to message #758840]

Thu, 24 November 2011 18:04

Meinte Boersma

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Registered: July 2009
Location: Leiden, Netherlands

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You need to add assignments to the grammar and you probably want to avoid/thin out the use of explicit terminals for keywords as well. Xtext really is an abstraction over ANTLR and not a super set of ANTLR. The concepts are quite similar, but their specific semantics differ.

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