[erlang-questions] yecc subpattern issue

[Phil Pirozhkov]

Hi!

Having issues with yecc (leex works 100% fine)
For a 
l
the following rules doesn't work, and they work perfectly fine for
{for a in b}{a}{a}{end}

https://github.com/pirj/ryan/tree/master/src/retem/retem_parse.yrl

I expect a single

for_block -> '{' for identifier in identifier '}' blocks end : {for, remove_id('$3'), '$5', ['$7']}.

is enough, but this rule doesn't seem to work at all.
for_block -> '{' for identifier in identifier '}' block end : {for, remove_id('$3'), '$5', ['$7']}.
works fine

Is there a need for an additional level of abstraction in this case?

leex output for "{for a in b}{a}{a}{end}" is:
[{'{'},
 {for},
 {identifier,a},
 {in},
 {identifier,b},
 {'}'},
 {'{'},
 {identifier,a},
 {'}'},
 {'{'},
 {identifier,a},
 {'}'},
 {'{'},
 {endc},
 {'}'}]

a single occurency of
 {'{'},
 {identifier,a},
 {'}'},
is treated as 'block' by yecc, and the whole sequence results in
[{for,a,{identifier,b},{identifier,a}}]


but
 {'{'},
 {identifier,a},
 {'}'},
 {'{'},
 {identifier,a},
 {'}'},
isn't parsed as 'blocks', and results in exception:
exception error: no match of right hand side value 
                 {error,{a,retem_parse,
                           ["syntax error before: ",["identifier"]]}}

Why?
Is there a cure?

Cheers, Phil