[antlr-interest] Handling explicit continuation characters

[Johannes Luber]

> At 21:05 13/01/2009, Johannes Luber wrote:
>  >Wouldn't it be easier to create an own StringStream (dreived 
> from
>  >ANTLRStringStream) which silently swallows the + and - as well 
> the
>  >following newline? Then both lexer and parser are cleaner.
> 
> That's certainly a possibility (and perhaps a good one), but 
> that'd end up screwing up the line numbering, wouldn't it?

I don't see, why swallowing the two characters would prevent increasing the line count. Tokens receive the line number from the stream itself and not because the lexer counts newlines.

Johannes
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