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Richard Thrippleton wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Jim Idle wrote:
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<pre wrap="">This may well be a safe point that I missed and I will look at it,
but I suspect it only works with your rule formulation.
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<pre wrap=""><!---->Thanks.
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<pre wrap="">It is not a good idea to use backtracking though unless your input is
always guaranteed to be correct, as otherwise the ability to give
good error messages is pretty much destroyed.
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<pre wrap=""><!---->Well, we got this even with "backtracking = false;" as a grammar option
(the specific symptom being that some rule functions were being entered,
but not leaving via the codepath that did rulePostProcessing).
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My advice on backtracking was about backtracking in general rather that
this specific concept :-)<br>
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Jim<br>
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