[antlr-interest] Comments/newlines

[Sohail Somani]

On Fri, 2005-30-09 at 14:12 +0200, Lars Heuer wrote:
> Hi Sohail,
> 
> > How would you define a lexer to tokenize the following so that the
> > grammar rules use EOL?
> 
> > x = y // some comment
> > // some comment
> > x = y
> 
> Maybe this works:
> 
>       COMMENT : "//" (~('\r'|'\n'))+ {$setType(Token.SKIP);}
>       ;
> 
>       EOL : ('\r')? '\n' {newline();}
>       ;
> 

Yes this works. I don't know what I was thinking when I wrote my rule
for the comments. 

Thanks!