[antlr-interest] Enhance ANTLR to support comments?

[atripp54321]

I'd like to propose enhancing ANTLR to explicitly
support comments.

The proposal is here:
http://jazillian.com/antlr/antlrComments.html

I realize that theoretically, a "compiler-compiler"
shouldn't deal with comments. But it just seems like it's
a big enough real-world issue (witness the countless
"How do I handle comments" posts) that it should be dealt with.

It seems like a couple of small changes to ANTLR could
be made to have ANTLR-generated lexers attach comments to
Tokens, without breaking any existing ANTLR-based apps.

Let me know what you think of the idea, even if you think
"Blasphemy!"

Andy


 

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