[antlr-interest] Re: Stream Positions

[treyspiva]

I was not able to just override the consume() method because the 
lexer can backtrack adn teh same character position may be visted 
many times.

> I had to alter CharBuffer, CharScanner, CommonToken, InputBuffer,
> LexerSharedInputState, Token
> 
> I just wanted to know if you would like to put it in the Antlr 
build.  (I am
> working in C++)
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Terence Parr [mailto:parrt at j...]
> Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 12:45 PM
> To: antlr-interest at y...
> Subject: Re: [antlr-interest] Stream Positions
> 
> 
> On Friday, January 4, 2002, at 07:08  AM, treyspiva wrote:
> 
> > I have modified the C++ code to emit the starting stream position 
of
> > a token.  I found the stream position very usiful.  I was 
wondering
> > if I can get this into the C++ build.
> 
> Can't this be easily added by overriding consume() or something?
> 
> Ter
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