[antlr-interest] case sensitivity for ANTLR v3 lexers

[Terence Parr]

On May 16, 2006, at 4:09 PM, Don Caton wrote:

> Ter:
>
>> All error strings are in a template group now :)  People will
>> be able to send in their language.stg files and errors will
>> come out in the locale's strings. :)  All ST stuff allows
>> char encoding ...
>
> Not sure what that means.  I looked at ST a few times but I never  
> really
> grokked it.  Your "about" article talks mostly about web page  
> generation,
> and there's no C++ version to play with, so I really had no reason  
> to look
> at it any further.

Well, it kinda needs reflection...C++ would make this challenging.

See my latest language oriented article?  See st.org

> I understand that you're using ST to generate code in 3.0, but how  
> is that
> relevant at runtime?  Will ST be required at runtime as well?

Oh, sorry...i meant ANTLR v3 errors not parse errors.  Just override  
reportError(Exception e) and you're groovy!

> All I'm really looking for is an overridable "getErrorString()"  
> method, or
> something like that, so I can supply an appropriate error message  
> depending
> on the end user's locale.  The default implementation could use the  
> English
> messages, please just allow some clean way of overriding them at  
> runtime.

You have, sir!  See the runtime stuff...doesn't use ST at all.

Ter