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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Ada grammar rules for names too permissive?
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2019 09:58:25 +0100
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On 2019-01-03 23:39, olivermkellogg@gmail.com wrote:
> On Tuesday, January 1, 2019 at 9:44:17 AM UTC+1, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>> [...]
>>        Never push semantic rules into syntax.
> 
> I'm not so sure about that:
> A nice feature of ANTLR is that is supports semantic predicates which can be embedded in the grammar.
> For example, using sem preds on the basis of symbol tables would permit discerning among indexed_component, type_conversion, function_call.

In presence of overloading, really? Anyway, I see no use in such a 
distinction in general.

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