antlrworks

For a pet project I started to fiddle with ANTLR. After following some tutorials I'm now trying to create the grammar for my very own language and to generate an AST. For now I'm messing around in ANTLRWorks mostly, but now that I have validated that the parse tree seems to be fine I'd like to (iteratively, because I'm still learning and still need to make some decisions regarding the final structure of the tree) create the AST. It seems that antlrworks won't visualize it (or at least not using the "Interpreter" feature, Debug's not working on any of my machines). Bottom line: Is the only way

The TestDriver in ANTLRWorks2 seems kind of finicky about when it'll accept a grammer without and explicit EOF and when it will not. The Hello grammar in the ANTLR4 Getting Started Guide doesn't use EOF anywhere, so I inferred that it's better to avoid explicit EOF if possible. What is the best practice for using EOF ? When do you actually need it? You should include an explicit EOF at the end of your entry rule any time you are trying to parse an entire input file. If you do not include the EOF , it means you are not trying to parse the entire input, and it's acceptable to parse only a