Terminal descriptions
Terminals can be given an end user readable description (just before the semicolon), for use in parser error messages:
@terminals:
@keywords Operators = and // "and"
or; // "or"
IDTK = "[a-z]+" [an identifier]; // an identifier
ID2TK = "[A-Z]+" [ an identifier ]; // an identifier
ASNGTK = ":="; // ":="
@eof; // end-of-file
X = "[abc]"; // X
"[def]"; // no descriptionKeyword literals (ANDTK and ORTK in the example above) have the keywords surrounded by double quotes as default description. Similarly, terminals defined by regular expressions without choice (no character classes, star operators, etc) and using only 'graphical' characters (no control characters, end-of-file, new lines, etc) also have the literal text that they match (surrounded by double quotes) as default description (see ASGNTK in the example above). The end-of-file token has end-of-file as default description. Keywords that don’t have a description and don’t have default descriptions as described above, get the name of the terminal as description (see X in the example above). If they don’t have a name, they have no description.
Nameless terminals are not used by the parser, and therefore do not require a description. The end-of-file terminal has a default description, and can not be given a custom description. Giving a terminal a custom description if it already has a default description, leads to a warning.