Subject: Re: [sv-ec] suggested question for Synopsys and especially Cadence
From: Paul B. Graham (pgraham@cadence.com)
Date: Sat Dec 07 2002 - 11:02:09 PST
> Is it easier/possible to limit the recognition of a "keyword" if
> it is in a subscope delimited by (say) brackets?
Sure, vhdl does it with the 'range attribute. The vhdl syntax could be:
attribute_name :=
id ' id
id ' KW_RANGE
and you could do something similar for your example. Note the the lexer
doesn't do anything different, just the parser accepts keywords in some
places that identifiers are also allowed.
Paul
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