How would you translate this portion of code written in ANTLR 3 into ANTLR 4?
expr: (Identifier '.')=> (refIdentifier)
| (Identifier '!')=> (refIdentifier)
| (Identifier '=>')=> (lambdaExpression);
I mean this kind of semantic predicate does not seem to exist now. What could I use Instead?
In ANTLR v4, there are no longer gated semantic predicates, { ... }?=>, and there are also no longer syntactic predicates, ( ... )=>, because the parsing algorithm used in v4 can resolve the ambiguities (the need for such predicates are no longer needed). So, this should just work for you:
expr
: refIdentifier
| refIdentifier
| lambdaExpression
;
Note that there is just one type of predicate in v4: semantic predicates, { ... }?. If you need to inspect the contents of a token, for example, you can do it like this:
id_capitals_only
: {_input.LT(1).getText().matches("[A-Z]+")}? ID
;
ID
: [a-zA-Z]+
;
And as Sam Harwell mentions in the comments:
The semantic predicates {...}? in V4 work like the gated semantic predicates did in V3. The ungated predicates from V3 do not have a counterpart in ANTLR 4.
