[antlr-interest] Return types on lexer rules do not seem towork.

[Jim Idle]

You are not mistaken. ANTLR3 lexers are simpler, leaner, meaner beasts and the return types and so on are not supported. 

Alex: Rather than bemoan this though, perhaps we can see what the intended use of the return types is?

Jim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: antlr-interest-bounces at antlr.org [mailto:antlr-interest-
> bounces at antlr.org] On Behalf Of Kay Roepke
> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 10:18 AM
> To: Alex Shneyderman
> Cc: ANTLR Interest
> Subject: Re: [antlr-interest] Return types on lexer rules do not seem
> towork.
> 
> 
> On Jul 18, 2007, at 10:13 AM, Alex Shneyderman wrote:
> 
> > I run it with 3.0 final, so you guys might have fixed it ... ?
> 
> AFAIK, lexer rules have no return values. But I might be mistaken.
> 
> HTH,
> -k
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> Kay Röpke
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