Re: Incorporating comments in syntax tree?

I've also encountered this problem and did not find a really good
solution. What I would like to have is something like a
"skip-rule". Everytihng that matches this rule will be skipped, but
will still be available to the parser somehow.


If this was possible, we would write:


comment (skip) :
"//[~\n]*\n"
<< write to output, or keep somewhere >>


other rules...


Does this make any sense?




By the way, I read in Tom Moog's newbie-notes that there is a
description of a pretty printer that was written with PCCTS. This
probably includes dealing with comments, but I didn't look into it to
see exactly how.


good luck!
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Hebrew University, | email: nadav@cs.huji.ac.il
Jerusalem, Israel
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