Errata for The Definitive ANTLR Reference
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| 43 |
#36803: Look at this sentence from that page:
"Sentences are ambiguous if at least one of its phrases
is ambiguous."
I think it should be "A senten...more...
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P3.0
02-Jan-09 |
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| 46 |
#39247: The WS rule in tour/basic/Expr.g includes '\n'|'\r'
With input like:
1+2\n
\n
\n
4+5
the WS rule eats the newlines between 2 and 4, ...more...
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P1.0
24-May-09 |
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| 51 |
#39810: (Footnote) "rule references within alternative" needs more letters. "rule references within an alternative" or "rule references within alternatives".--Tom Nurkkala |
P3.0
03-Jul-09 |
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| 56 |
#36933: The link cited in footnote 12 is no longer valid.--Sebastian Gift |
P3.0
07-Jan-09 |
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| 60 |
#38366: Building ASTs with a Grammar, second paragraph, second sentence: As you we along, ... ????--Anders |
P3.0
16-Mar-09 |
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| 73 |
#36609: Paragraph 3, sentence 1 - "A grammar describe ..." should be "A grammar describes ...".--George S. Cowan |
P1.0
25-Dec-08 |
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| 81 |
#36612: In Figure 4.1, make the "." bolder. I find I repeatedly miss it, when looking at this table. Also, the utility of this entry as a reference wo...more...
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P1.0
25-Dec-08 |
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| 237 |
#36610: Paragraph 2 and 1st method name in following example code disagree. Should they both be "displayRecognitionError()" or "getErrorMessage(...)"?--George S. Cowan |
P1.0
25-Dec-08 |
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| 265 |
#39134: The example grammar on p. 264 requires at least one token A to occur. Thus, the rewrite on the facing page should be
a : A a
| A
;
...more...
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P3.0
07-May-09 |
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| 274 |
#35848: In the end of second paragraph: "can also be a statements". I think it should be "statement" (singular)--Sergio Medeiros |
P2.0
12-Nov-08 |
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| 282 |
#35847: In the end of first paragraph: "assuming type matches matches 'int'". I think it should be just "assuming type matches 'int'".--Sergio Medeiros |
P2.0
12-Nov-08 |
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| 283 |
#38195: About half way down the page, the phrase "but where the semicolon can also be a statements:", the last word should be singular ("statement"). |
P3.0
05-Mar-09 |
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| 289 |
#38197: At end of page, and flowing onto the next, "choose which rule to match upon saying a single-digit such as 4." has two problems: "saying" shoul...more...
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P3.0
05-Mar-09 |
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| 312 |
#36611: Paragraph 2 (following 1st diagram): The paragraph begins with a spurious "1".--George |
P1.0
25-Dec-08 |
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| 323 |
#35865: In first paragraph: "... this means syntactic predicates let you use write grammars that ANTLR ..."
Maybe the sentence should be: "... this...more...
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P2.0
13-Nov-08 |
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| 334 |
#36447: Second paragraph, second paragraph after the code snippet: "It reflects a situation where you want to treat identifiers s and sx differently d...more...
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P2.0
15-Dec-08 |