eval abstract method

bool eval(
  1. Recognizer<ATNSimulator> parser,
  2. RuleContext? parserCallStack
)

For context independent predicates, we evaluate them without a local context (i.e., null context). That way, we can evaluate them without having to create proper rule-specific context during prediction (as opposed to the parser, which creates them naturally). In a practical sense, this avoids a cast exception from RuleContext to myruleContext.

For context dependent predicates, we must pass in a local context so that references such as $arg evaluate properly as _localctx.arg. We only capture context dependent predicates in the context in which we begin prediction, so we passed in the outer context here in case of context dependent predicate evaluation.

Implementation

bool eval(Recognizer parser, RuleContext? parserCallStack);