GrammarAltInfoclassgramprod.t[43]

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Details

Rule alternative descriptor. This describes one alternative in a grammar production. An alternative is one complete list of matchable tokens.

In a 'grammar' statement, alternatives are delimited by '|' symbols at the top level. Each group of tokens set off by '|' symbols is one alternative.

When '|' symbols are grouped with parentheses in a 'grammar' statement, the compiler "flattens" the grouping by expanding out the parenthesized groups until it has entirely top-level alternatives. So, at the level of a GrammarProd object, there's no such thing as parentheses or nested '|' symbols.

class GrammarAltInfo :   object

Superclass Tree   (in declaration order)

GrammarAltInfo
        object

Subclass Tree  

(none)

Global Objects  

(none)

Summary of Properties  

gramBadness  gramMatchObj  gramTokens 

Summary of Methods  

construct 

Properties  

gramBadnessgramprod.t[66]

The 'badness' value associated with the alternative. A value of zero means that there's no badness.

gramMatchObjgramprod.t[73]
the "match object" class - this is the class that GrammarProd.parseTokens() instantiates to represent a match to this alternative in the match list that the method returns

gramTokensgramprod.t[80]
The token descriptor list. This is a list of zero or more GrammarAltTokInfo objects describing the tokens making up this rule.

Methods  

construct (score, badness, matchObj, toks, ...)gramprod.t[54]

Constructor. GrammarProd.getGrammarInfo() calls this once for each alternative making up the production, passing in the values that define the alternative. Note that we have a '...' in our argument list so that we'll be compatible with any future GrammarProd versions that add additional arguments - we won't do anything with the extra arguments, but we'll harmlessly ignore them, so code compiled with this library version will continue to work correctly.

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