[antlr-interest] Re: suggested ANTLR projects?

[Terence Parr]

On Tuesday, August 12, 2003, at 07:57  PM, Brian Smith wrote:

>
> tbrandonau wrote:
>> Ensemble section). In fact the Netbeans support could be improved
>> upon, incremental lexing gains from having a way to in effect return
>> multiple tokens at a time, to tell the incremental lexer not to try
>> an resume in the middle of a token (e.g. in Antlr you want to
>> return "options {" as two tokens: LITERAL_options and LCURLY but you
>> want to lex it in a single rule) so either non-restartable tokens or
>
> Please explain why "options {" is better lexed as a single rule? I
> noticed this kind of thing in ANTLR's antlr.g grammar and I simply 
> could
> not understand why the grammar was written like that. I feel I must be
> overlooking something.

I can't remember why anymore but I remember it being a good reason at 
the time ;)

Ter
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