[antlr-interest] newline?

[ronald.petty at milliman.com]

I was reading the Antlr tutorial by Ashley J.S Mills and was wondering 
about the newline function.  She (or maybe he), says

"newline() method which tells Antlr to bump up it's line count and goto 
the next line.  Without this the lexer would be stuck on one line!" page 9 
if printed

This has to do with her example of 

WS      :
        ( ' '
        | '\t'
        | '\r' '\n' { newline(); }
        | '\n'       { newline(); }
        )
        { $setType(Token.SKIP); }
        ;

I am also checking for which space and newlines, however I do not have the 
newline function being used (also don't have the setType call).  When I do

java Main
test
MATCHED TEST
test
MATCHED TEST
test
MATCHED TEST

that appears to me that antlr is handling newline just fine without the 
function call.  Any idea if I am wrong or am I missing something from the 
tutorial?

Thanks
Ron

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