[antlr-interest] grammar question

[Terence Parr]

On Sunday, March 23, 2003, at 03:10  PM, mark kant wrote:

> I checked the example - it does the lexer selection
> based in lex only.  Is there another way to activate a
> set of lex rules based on a rule match in parser, but
> under normal  conditions, these lex rules are inactive
> ?
>

Technically yes via a semantic predicate on left edge of lexer rule 
(new 2.7.2 feature), but it's generally bad to have parser feed info 
back to lexer for lookahead reasons.

Ter
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