[antlr-interest] Antlr 3 and the newline token problem

[Micheal J]

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> I would be against putting file name tracking in antlr.

I can't agree with that. I just want the ability to turn it off.

> I believe antlr itself should just do parsing and everything else
> like source file tracking, line tracking ,etc should be added on 
> top.

Filename tracking is a quite different from col/line/offset tracking. The
latter really should be handled by the tool as it can have a serious impact
on lexer performance if done inefficiently. Parsers would just inherit
whatever the lexer was able to gather.

Micheal