[antlr-interest] Re: unicode strings using supplemental char range

[Terence Parr]

On Jun 26, 2004, at 1:16 PM, lgcraymer wrote:

> Ter--
>
> I have to say that I am not a fan of the "cave man" approach.  ANTLR
> 2.x is available for backwards compatibility; there is no point in not
> requiring 1.4 or maybe even 1.5 and figure out a clean way to
> implement the ANTLR runtime with generics.  I've discovered that
> unnecessarily reinventing the wheel is usually a waste of effort, and
> focusing on backwards compatibility guarantees that you do a lot of
> wheel reinvention.  Make it easy on yourself!

Understood, but just from a practical point of view, I won't be able to 
code in 1.5 for a long time ;)  (til after I'm hoping to finish 
probably). :(

You have a point about 2.x being available for lower versions of Java.  
Using the NIO in 1.4 would be nice to speed up the lexers chewing on 
char streams...  1.5 is pretty much out of the picture though I'm 
guessing. :(

Ter
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