[antlr-interest] QUESTION on: How do I handle abbreviated keywords?

[Gavin Lambert]

At 20:06 1/11/2008, Ben Gillis wrote:
 >Can you tell me more about how you go about it?  This is exactly 

 >what I'm looking into, i.e. what is the best way to define my
 >keywords.

I normally just define them directly, ie:

BEGIN: 'begin';

(I used to define them in the tokens section:

tokens {
   BEGIN = 'begin';
}

except that in recent versions of ANTLR this sometimes gives odd 
warning messages.)


It helps to write lots of unit tests, though.  Sometimes 
interactions between lexer rules (and ANTLR's minimal lookahead) 
can lead to odd results.