[antlr-interest] what does /** do?

Jim Idle jimi at temporal-wave.com
Mon Feb 25 14:04:16 PST 2008


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Benjamin Shropshire [mailto:shro8822 at vandals.uidaho.edu]
> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 2:02 PM
> To: Antlr Interest
> Subject: [antlr-interest] what does /** do?
> 
> I just noticed that if I uses a /**** */ comment (more than one *)
> things don't work. Is this an artifact of the lexer or are these
> comments used for something? I don't recall ever seeing them used
> anywhere for anything (and Google won't search for non text :-b )

What does it do in what?

/** is the introducer for a Doxygen/Javadoc like comment, but any more 
'*' would just be ignored in an ANTLR source, or should be. Are you 
saying that they are not, or are you talkign about your own lexer?

Jim
 




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