[antlr-interest] Fwd: A couple of questions for lexing strategy.

[Darien Hager]

I'll let the knowledgable folks deal with most of that (how gracious of me
:P ) but...

On 2/29/08, ANTLR Mailing List <jstpierre-antlr at mecheye.net> wrote:
>
>
>   Also, can ANTLR extract the token list in the lexer into it's own
>   class? When using the parser rule grammar shown above, the list is
>   generated twice, once in each class. It seems that putting the tokens
>   in its own file would be much cleaner.


At least when using ANTLRworks a file called grammarname.tokens is created
with each line containing a token-text to ID mapping. This file is AFAIK
only for your convenience, nothing relies on it.

Of course, the tokens attached to Parser/Lexer classes as constants
(public-static-final) can be accessed without instantiating the lexer
or parser.

  Also, I still have interest in developing the ActionScript port for
>   ANTLR, but I'm a student (read: I'm under 18). Would I still be able
>   to develop, because my signature is not legal.
>

As a non-lawyer, I don't think that's a major problem--you don't need to be
of legal age to begin making a runtime port or other software project... you
just have to be of a legal age or have help before you make any contractual
agreement stuff. (You know, like licensing your work or something.)

-- 
Darien Hager
Developer
Etelos, Inc.
darien at etelos.com

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