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Syntax Highlight of disconnected rules [message #988452]

Thu, 29 November 2012 22:41

Barrie Treloar

Messages: 55
Registered: July 2009

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I was wondering why the editor is showing some of my rules in grey.

And I solved that problem when my parser couldn't parse that rule when I was sure I wrote it correctly.

I think the grey is indicating that the rule is not connected to another rule so wont be called. As soon as I included this rule in another rule it turned black.

Is being "grey" a standard eclipse thing?
I was kind of hoping for a warning marker, or perhaps the hover text could indicate a warning.

Should I file an enhancement request?

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Re: Syntax Highlight of disconnected rules [message #988478 is a reply to message #988452]

Fri, 30 November 2012 07:11

Alexander Nittka

Messages: 1193
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Hi,

the "grey" syntax highlighting is specific to the Xtext grammar editor. It indeed indicates that the rule is not "reachable" from the root rule. My guess is that an enhancement request will be ignored (wontfix), as you may introduce such rules for the purpose of influencing the meta model inference.

Supertype: Type1|Type2;

is an example. You may want Type1 and Type2 to have a common supertype without actually having a place in your language where you want those to types to be allowed in the same location.

Alex

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Re: Syntax Highlight of disconnected rules [message #990743 is a reply to message #988478]

Fri, 14 December 2012 03:21

Barrie Treloar

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Registered: July 2009

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It would be nice to document what the grey text means.
And perhaps also include in the hover text a "reminder" that indicates the rule is unreachable would be useful.

I had to guess at the meaning, and the colors are clearly trying to tell me something, its just there is no way to know that information.

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