[antlr-interest] Re: Using different tokens for the same grammar

[mzukowski at yci.com]

Antlr looks up literals in a hash map called literals in the lexer.  It
would be pretty easy for you to add an initialization routine that loaded in
more entries, say for French and Spanish.  The easiest way would probably be
to re-use the *TokenTypes.txt file, translated to whatever language, and
just parse it and load it into the table.

Monty

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> From: dspiess_mk [mailto:dj at gamethingy.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 2:01 PM
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> Subject: [antlr-interest] Using different tokens for the same grammar
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> Hi, 
> I've inhierted a project that uses antlr, and I am trying to localize 
> the application. Is there an easy way to swap out what the valid 
> tokens are, but keep the grammar the same? 
> 
> For example our application builds mathematical expressions for 
> evaluation. The English version has a function called average(i, 
> i2, ...) where the user specifies the function average and several 
> parameters. In French, this needs to be moyenne(i, 12, ...). The 
> parsing is the same, just the keyword is different. 
> 
> Is there a way to specify the tokens at runtime instead of compile 
> time? I really don't want to have to support different compiles for 
> each localized version of our java app. 
> 
> Thanks for any help! 
> 
> Daniel Spiess
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