[antlr-interest] Character/String Constants

[Terence Parr]

On Monday, December 22, 2003, at 09:50 AM, Tom Zagotta wrote:

> Is it possible to define character or string constants?
>
> For example, if I use '0'..'9' in lots of places, I'd like to define a
> constant called DIGIT.
>
> I know that in the Lexer I could have a "protected DIGIT: '0'..'9';"
> definition, but this generates an additional member function.  The 
> desire is
> to have this be "inlined" with no member function.
>
> If this isn't supported in 2.7.2, is it planned for a future release 
> (3?)?

Sorry.  The on-the-fly compiler should inline small functions though.  
It might not however...i do some inlining as a side-effect of auto-left 
factoring and LL-regular analysis for ANTLR 3. :)

Ter
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