[antlr-interest] "protected" lexer rules

[matthew ford]

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From: "Terence Parr" <parrt at cs.usfca.edu>
To: <antlr-interest at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 10:04 AM
Subject: [antlr-interest] "protected" lexer rules


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> Ok, folks, time to come up with a better name for lexer rules that are 
> not real tokens (they are only rules called by other rules).  Currently 
> it's "protected", which is hideous:
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> FLOAT : (DIGIT)+ '.' DIGIT | (DIGIT)+ ;
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> protected
> DIGIT : '0'..'9' ;
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> Ick.  So, should it be an option or keyword?  What would the name be?  
> I can't even describe it exactly even in two words. :(
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> "non token"?  "method"?  "macro"?  "internal"?
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> Help!
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> I need to implement this now in the 3.0 system.
> 
> Ter
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