[antlr-interest] Should there be 2 antlr jar files for java version

Terence Parr parrt at cs.usfca.edu
Tue Apr 5 17:31:58 PDT 2005


On Apr 5, 2005, at 1:42 PM, Bryan Ewbank wrote:

> On a related note, is there any reason why there even needs to be a
> runtime at all?  It seems that you could lay down all the code needed
> and avoid quite a bit of complexity.

Hi Bryan,

One reason in favor is that you can have more than one parser in your 
code w/o duplicating code.  Further, fixes to the runtime can be hand 
w/o regenerating your parser and compiling. :)

JavaCC generates everything I think.

Ter
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