http://www.symphonious.net/2005/09/11/antlr-is-not-as-cool-as-id-hoped/ Living in a state of accord. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:50:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.symphonious.net/2005/09/11/antlr-is-not-as-cool-as-id-hoped/comment-page-1/#comment-49887 haoyujie Wed, 10 Jan 2007 09:40:15 +0000 http://www.symphonious.net/2005/09/11/antlr-is-not-as-cool-as-id-hoped/#comment-49887 I do think so. The resoure of antlr is totally mass. you can try Bumble-Bee . It easy to understand, It based yacc&lex. I do think so.
The resoure of antlr is totally mass.
you can try Bumble-Bee .
It easy to understand, It based yacc&lex.

]]> http://www.symphonious.net/2005/09/11/antlr-is-not-as-cool-as-id-hoped/comment-page-1/#comment-7461 liljencrantz Mon, 12 Sep 2005 10:07:11 +0000 http://www.symphonious.net/2005/09/11/antlr-is-not-as-cool-as-id-hoped/#comment-7461 I had to use antlr for a college project a few years ago, and while I found it pretty easy to get a working parser that was clear, easy to understand and extensible, I had serious issues with error handling and error recovery. Even something as trivial as generating errors proved very difficult, and antlr really wasn't very helpful in discovering what exactly went wrong. In the end, there where a lot of places on the code where the error message ended up looking like 'Syntax error on line X'. I had to use antlr for a college project a few years ago, and while I found it pretty easy to get a working parser that was clear, easy to understand and extensible, I had serious issues with error handling and error recovery. Even something as trivial as generating errors proved very difficult, and antlr really wasn’t very helpful in discovering what exactly went wrong. In the end, there where a lot of places on the code where the error message ended up looking like ‘Syntax error on line X’.

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