[antlr-interest] Writing lexer for controlled english

[Terence Parr]

On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 06:43 AM, unmesh joshi wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I want to write a lexer for a controlled english parser. Instead of 
> hand coding the TokenManager I think its better if I can have token 
> definition like
>
> ANYTOKEN which is not KEYWORD and SPACES, COMMENTS etc.
>
> And then write lexer action to match the word in the dictionaty.

Just make an ID rule that tests a dictionary to see if it's a keyword 
etc...

Ter
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