[antlr-interest] ANTLRWorks 2 (for ANTLR v4)

[Jim Idle]

Yep - sounds like the kinds of thing to go for based around v4... err v5?
;) I remember Ter saying to me "V3 is it now, I won't be creating a v4..."
;)

Jim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sam Harwell [mailto:sharwell at pixelminegames.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2011 9:55 AM
> To: 'Jim Idle'; 'Antlr-Interest Antlr.Org'
> Subject: RE: [antlr-interest] ANTLRWorks 2 (for ANTLR v4)
>
> With a carefully designed algorithm, autocomplete actually works quite
> well in an ANTLR grammar. I went over portions of the algorithm with
> Ter in the past, but it's outside the scope of what he's working on for
> ANTLR 4. A partial implementation will be included in the next release
> of my Visual Studio integration (clean and working, but missing a few
> features I've designed on paper).
>
> The new parsing algorithms I'm using do a great job of handling
> incomplete syntax, but use a very different type of parser than ANTLR
> generates. They also allow local analysis of a fragment of text within
> a file with a constant-time complexity WRT the size of the file, so it
> performs as well while editing a 1MB grammar as it does with a  1KB
> grammar. I'm hoping to create a modified version of the ANTLR tool that
> can produce these parsers from an ANTLR grammar.
>
> Sam
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: antlr-interest-bounces at antlr.org
> [mailto:antlr-interest-bounces at antlr.org] On Behalf Of Jim Idle
> Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2011 10:41 AM
> To: Antlr-Interest Antlr.Org
> Subject: Re: [antlr-interest] ANTLRWorks 2 (for ANTLR v4)
>
> That's an ANTLR request (which has already been considered), not a
> Works request.
>
> However, the new IDE should use a smarter parser that can handle
> incomplete syntax better - as in, it is coded to recognize such things
> where it is possible. Note that autocomplete does not really work for
> ANTLR grammars as almost all tokens can be a possibility in most
> places.
>
>
> Jim
>