[antlr-interest] Re: unicode strings using supplemental char range

matthew ford Matthew.Ford at forward.com.au
Sat Jun 26 17:03:51 PDT 2004


I have tried V1.5 beta and found it un-usable.
A project (Parallel) that runs fine in V1.4, dies in funny ways in
multi-threaded sync methods
in V1.5
I also found NetBeans was not stable under V1.5 and then found that NetBeans
recommends
not using V1.5 but sticking to V1.4.

matthew

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Terence Parr" <parrt at cs.usfca.edu>
To: <antlr-interest at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2004 6:39 AM
Subject: Re: [antlr-interest] Re: unicode strings using supplemental char
range


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> On Jun 26, 2004, at 1:16 PM, lgcraymer wrote:
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> > Ter--
> >
> > I have to say that I am not a fan of the "cave man" approach.  ANTLR
> > 2.x is available for backwards compatibility; there is no point in not
> > requiring 1.4 or maybe even 1.5 and figure out a clean way to
> > implement the ANTLR runtime with generics.  I've discovered that
> > unnecessarily reinventing the wheel is usually a waste of effort, and
> > focusing on backwards compatibility guarantees that you do a lot of
> > wheel reinvention.  Make it easy on yourself!
>
> Understood, but just from a practical point of view, I won't be able to
> code in 1.5 for a long time ;)  (til after I'm hoping to finish
> probably). :(
>
> You have a point about 2.x being available for lower versions of Java.
> Using the NIO in 1.4 would be nice to speed up the lexers chewing on
> char streams...  1.5 is pretty much out of the picture though I'm
> guessing. :(
>
> Ter
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