[antlr-interest] translation of $x references in v3.0

Monty Zukowski monty at codetransform.com
Mon May 2 21:12:54 PDT 2005


On May 1, 2005, at 4:10 PM, Loring Craymer wrote:
>>
>> Sounds like we should let the specifiers be, uh, specified:
>
> Scott--
>
> I started thinking in that direction myself, and then realized "Duh!
> Special characters in actions are the responsibility of the ANTLR 
> backend
> developer for a given target language".  The ANTLR implementation 
> needs to
> provide the hooks for applying the translation, but it is the backend
> "action parser" that is responsible for identifying tokens to be 
> translated.
>

I'm in agreement here for sure!

Monty



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