ANTLR / lexer (was: Backtick Hickup)

[Andrea Censi]

On 9/3/07, Allan Odgaard <29mtuz102 at sneakemail.com> wrote:

> On Aug 27, 2007, at 11:02 PM, Eric Astor wrote:

>

> > [...]

> > Well - has anyone else looked into ANTLR 3.0 at all? The LL(*)

> > grammar language it uses (an EBNF) allows for full backtracking

> > support, and unspecified lookahead as far as necessary. It's fairly

> > well-optimized, as I understand it, taking advantage of some of the

> > packrat-parsing ideas to save handling a single text section

> > repeatedly...

>

> I am playing a bit with writing a Markdown parser now, since I have

> been involuntarily cut off from my regular project.


Which programming language are you using?
When you have a working parser in ANTLR3, let us know, I'm interested
in playing with it.

I guess the main challenge is detecting the block-level constructs,
lists in particular.
Also, the new block-level constructs used in Markdown Extra need still
more look-ahead (3-4 lines).

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Andrea Censi
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