ANTLR(1)

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💖 ANTLR 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because this is the antlr manual page and it's genuinely iconic. ANTLR? ANother Tool for Language Recognition. yeah. the name is a recursive acronym. it's giving nerd royalty, it's giving main character energy, and yes you're gonna learn it right now. 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

ANTLR — ANother Tool for Language Recognition 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

java antlr.Tool or runantlr ["args"] file.g

so like, that's the whole vibe. you either invoke it through java antlr.Tool or you run runantlr with your ["args"] and your file.g. that's it, that's the summoning ritual. 💅

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

okay so ANTLR, which literally stands for ANother Tool for Language Recognition — and yes it used to be called PCCTS, glow-up era, we love a rebrand — is a language tool that hands you a whole framework for constructing recognizers, compilers, and translators from grammatical descriptions that contain C++ or Java actions. no cap. you write the grammar, it builds the machine. obsessed. 😭

and now the flags, bestie, one by one, no skips, no summarising, we're doing all of them:

  • -o outputDir — tells it where to drop literally all the output. specify the output directory where everything gets generated. ✨
  • -glib superGrammar — points at where your supergrammar file lives. specify the location of the supergrammar file, that's the whole job. 🎀
  • -debug — launches the ParseView debugger upon parser invocation. it's debug o'clock. 🐛
  • -html — generates an html file from your grammar, and note the parenthetical bestie: minus actions. the actions do not come with. 🙈
  • -diagnostic — generates a textfile with diagnostics. receipts, basically. 💀
  • -trace — has all rules call traceIn/traceOut. every single one. 💅
  • -traceParser — has parser rules call traceIn/traceOut. just the parser ones, we're being specific. 🌸
  • -traceLexer — has lexer rules call traceIn/traceOut. lexer girlies rise. 💜
  • -traceTreeParser — has tree parser rules call traceIn/traceOut. tree parser edition, slay. 🌈
bestie note: this is the whole list of options in this page. don't go inventing extra flags, i will find out. 👑

👑 AUTHOR 👑

this manual page was written by John Leuner <jewel@debian.org>. thank you for your service, legend. 🫶

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

go check them out, iykyk. ⭐

and that's the whole page, bestie! 💖 this one's from the GNU crew, dated December 22, 2001, and it lives as page ANTLR(1). periodt. 🎀✨

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