[antlr-interest] (follow up) setting, altering text in lexer rules

[Sam Barnett-Cormack]

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Terence Parr wrote:
> 
> On Jun 12, 2006, at 3:02 PM, Don Caton wrote:
>> IMO, it might be better to determine what features are (and aren't)
>> necessary, and then leave it up to the individual language
>> implementers to
>> figure out how to implement them in the target language in the most
>> efficient manner possible.
>>
>> You're really wearing two hats here: the architect, and the Java
>> implementer.  I hope that when you're wearing the first hat you're
>> designing
>> the best parser you can, not the best parser implemented in Java that you
>> can.
> 
> Well the ! thing has always been a pain in the ass ;)  I'd rather opt
> for speed for now with a workable solution and see what happens in the
> future. :)

It might be a pain in the ass to implement, but it's a really sweet
feature from the user point of view.

Sam
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