[stringtemplate-interest] Re: [antlr-interest] StringTemplate + preserving comments

[Sohail Somani]

On Tue, 2005-08-11 at 21:54 -0800, Terence Parr wrote:
> On Nov 8, 2005, at 9:51 PM, Sohail Somani wrote:
> >
> > This is quite possible. The language I'm parsing is very whitespace
> > happy (sometimes!). No this was not fun to parse. So it could be that
> > the lexer passes:
> >
> > COMMENT EOL SOME_THING
> >
> > And of course when I try to print the text of SOME_THING, there is no
> > hidden before.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> 
> Yes.  Make that IF a WHILE loop to print ALL hidden tokens between  
> your token and the previous :)  It chains them all together :)

Ah, but isn't this information available only in the tokenstream and not
the token? Or am I missing something...

If I try to do SOME_THING.getText(), getHiddenBefore() will be null
because there is no hidden token before (as it is EOL)... So I don't
know where to get this chain from.

Sohail