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AnswerMGrammar - Unordered and optional multi-projections?

  • Friday, June 26, 2009 3:40 PMjustncase80 Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
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    Given this grammar:

    module test
    {
        language test
        {
            syntax Main = OneTwo*;
            
            syntax OneTwo
                =  o:One t:Two "\r\n"
                => Result { One => true, Two => true }
                |  Two One "\r\n"
                => Result { One => true, Two => true }
                |  One "\r\n"
                => Result { One => true, Two => false }
                |  Two "\r\n"
                => Result { One => false, Two => true };
                    
            token One = "one";
            token Two = "two";
            
            interleave Ignore = " ";
        }
    }

    How could I refactor the syntax "OneTwo" to have only a single projection? In my real language I have a bunch of other tokens before and after the two optional and unordered items and the | list can be quite extensive and long if I have to enumerate every possible combination. Furthermore if you have a third item ("OneTwoThree" for example) then your | list can get exponentially grow. 

    Is there a trick to defining unordered and optional items in the middle of a complex syntax?

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  • Saturday, June 27, 2009 1:28 PMlcorneliussen Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
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    Hi. Had the same issue last year. Gio promised to fix it :-)

    http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/oslo/thread/3d5cb0ce-ac57-47e0-a17c-55e977f2b56b

    Giovanni Della-Libera : "Hi!  I'm on the dev team for MGrammar and we've been thinking about this scenario, so I'm glad to see a customer hitting it.  We'd like to make this easy to indicate in the language.  Will let you know once we've made progress here."
    • Marked As Answer byjustncase80 Saturday, June 27, 2009 3:52 PM
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  • Saturday, June 27, 2009 1:28 PMlcorneliussen Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
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    Hi. Had the same issue last year. Gio promised to fix it :-)

    http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/oslo/thread/3d5cb0ce-ac57-47e0-a17c-55e977f2b56b

    Giovanni Della-Libera : "Hi!  I'm on the dev team for MGrammar and we've been thinking about this scenario, so I'm glad to see a customer hitting it.  We'd like to make this easy to indicate in the language.  Will let you know once we've made progress here."
    • Marked As Answer byjustncase80 Saturday, June 27, 2009 3:52 PM
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  • Saturday, June 27, 2009 3:53 PMjustncase80 Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
    Yup that appears to be the exact same problem.