%{ my $enum = 0; sub rangeORenum { my $self = shift; # Goal. Towrite this code as: # $enum = $self->YYPreParse('enum'); # Will parse using as start symbol 'enum', without changing the # parsing position. Returns true if it matches. Has the same effect # than the following code: # Use Regexp::Grammars. You have an attribute of $self: RGPATTERNS # keys: the names of the syntactic variables involved in the conflict # %starts enum OR %nested enum # The values are the Regexp::Grammar expressions describing # the syntactic variable (including the FOLLOWS) # Of course, this implies that the sub grammar can't be left recursive for (${$self->input()}) { if (m{(?= # look forward \G\s*\( # open parenthesis \s*\w+ # ID (\s*,\s*\w+)* \s*\)\s* # closing parenthesis ; # semicolon ) }x) { $enum = 1; } else { $enum = 0; } } } %} %conflict rangeORenum { if ($enum) { $self->YYSetReduce([',', ')'], 'ID:ENUM' ); } else { $self->YYSetReduce([',', ')'], 'ID:RANGE' ); } } %token ID = /([A-Za-z]\w*)/ %token NUM = /(\d+)/ %left ',' %left '-' '+' %left '*' '/' %expect-rr 2 %% type_decl : 'type' ID '=' type ';' ; type : %name ENUM # %code rangeORenum PRErangeORenum '(' id_list ')' | %name RANGE # %code rangeORenum PRErangeORenum expr '..' expr ; enum: '(' id_list ')' ; PRErangeORenum: /* empty */ { goto &rangeORenum; } ; id_list : %name ID:ENUM ID %PREC rangeORenum | id_list ',' ID ; expr : '(' expr ')' { $_[2] } /* bypass */ | %name PLUS expr '+' expr | %name MINUS expr '-' expr | %name TIMES expr '*' expr | %name DIV expr '/' expr | %name COMMA expr ',' expr | %name ID:RANGE ID %PREC rangeORenum | %name NUM NUM ; %% =head1 SYNOPSIS See =over 2 =item * File pascalenumeratedvsrange.eyp in examples/debuggintut/ =item * The Bison manual L =back Compile it with something like: eyapp -TC pascalenumeratedvsrangesolvedviapreconflictsolver.eyp Run it with this options: $ ./pascalenumeratedvsrangesolvedviapreconflictsolver.pm -t -i -m 1 -c 'type e = (x, y, z);' Try also these inputs: type e = (x) .. (y); type r = (x) .. y ; type r = (x+2)*3 .. y/2 ; type e = (x, y, z); type e = (x); type e = (x, y, z) .. (u+v); =cut