antlr notes and rants

Collecting some refs and thoughts on antlr, parser, tree walker, grammar, etc

Escape Characters:
Short article at antlr-interest

useful command line args java org.antlr.Tool
http://www.antlr.org/wiki/display/AN...d+line+options
-trace - generate a parser with some tracing statements
-debug - generates a parser that emits debugging information
-profile, hmmmm
-print or -report prints out the grammar

A fairly complete example
antlr.org/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=13828121
simple tutorial with lex dump
http://www.alittlemadness.com/2006/0...xical-analysis

Good discussion article
http://www.bearcave.com/software/ant..._examples.html

A tutorial about writing your own language
http://felix.plesoianu.ro/scratch-la...tch-lang3.html

A sample app Pie is included with the source for the book Language Implementation Patterns, by Terence Parr

Other inspiring bookmarks
http://specmath.com/tutorials/expression_parser_java -- good basic handcoded math evaluator

http://specmath.com/tutorials/expres...arser_java_ext -- more extensive parser with callable user entered functions


some very early bookmarks
http://meri-stuff.blogspot.com/2011/...-language.html
https://github.com/SomMeri/antlr-ste...6SimpleBoolean