[antlr-interest] Isn't the lexer supposed to break out from a rule upon EOF?

[Ric Klaren]

On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 09:47:41AM -0300, Rodrigo B. de Oliveira wrote:
> SL_COMMENT:
>  "#"! (~('\r'|'\n')!)*
>  { $setType(Token.SKIP); }
>  ;
> 
> The lexer refuses to return a token when it encounters an EOF inside the
> inverted rule,
> in other words, lexing a string like "#foo" would never return while lexing
> something like "#foo\n" will.
> 
> Is this the expected behaviour?

You have EOF in your charVocabulary? (E.g. -1 0xFFFF or whatever notation?)
If you have it is the behaviour you specified. If you don't there's
something else wrong.

Cheers,

Ric
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