[antlr-interest] 4.0 daily builds

Gavin Lambert antlr at mirality.co.nz
Mon Jan 2 13:32:18 PST 2012


At 11:44 2/01/2012, Terence Parr wrote:
 >> Can the special rules modify the text they're matching
 >> in terms of the text the eventual token gets?
 >
 >sure by setting this.text.

Does that work when more() is used to tell it to return a single 
token?  As I recall, while lexer fragment rules could set $text 
all they wanted, it didn't actually have any effect, since the 
final rule simply set its text based on the matched bounds, not 
the text of its subrules.



More information about the antlr-interest mailing list