[antlr-interest] lexer: suffixes and case insensitivity

[Edwards, Waverly]

is there a way to deal with old style BASIC variables?

I am replicating a dialect of BASIC that optionally uses suffixes for
variable types.

varName   // no suffix, determined by dim type, dim varName as type
varName$  // string
varName$$ // container ( like a string but much bigger )
varName#  // double precision
varName!  // single precision
varName`  // signed byte
varName%  // signed integer
varName&  // signed long integer
varName`` // unsigned byte
varName%` // unsigned integer
varName&` // unsigned long integer

Three ways that I can type a primitive variable type

dim as unsigned long varName   // typed as unsigned long
dim varName as unsigned long  // typed as unsigned long
dim varName&`                        // also and unsigned long by way of
suffix "&`"

Can this type of mapping be handled by the ANTLR lexer where
the lexer knows how to match varName%` before varName%

Still reading the site, still learning.


Thank you,


W.


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