[antlr-interest] Token vs Rule

[Ric Klaren]

On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 11:13:44AM +0100, Mark Buckle wrote:
> Erm, Is there anyway for the parser to communicate with the lexer to pass
> calling context down to this rule which will enable
> run-time setting of the testLiterals=true option ?

Nope, feedback from the parser to the lexer is in general not a good idea.
Due to syntactic predicates in the parser the lexer may be way ahead of the
parser in the input file. The tokens stuff is more for static stuff.

Cheers,

Ric
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