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Is it possible to continue parsing with other rules after an exception is raised in semantics?

Is it possible to fallback to other rules after an exception is raised in a semantic action? Like the following (contrived) scenario:

var = /[a-zA-Z]+/;
keyword = 'for' | 'in';
a = var:var | keyword:keyword;

def a(ast):
    if (ast.var not in symbolTable):
        raise Exception()

and when the exception is raised, parsing continues with the 'keyword' rule. I am aware of the @@keyword feature, but I want to declare keywords at runtime (my parser is for a programming language with user-defined operators).

Solution

  • If the semantics code raises tatsu.exceptions.FailedSemantics, the exception will be treated exactly as a ParseException, so the normal parsing control-flow will be resumed.