[antlr-interest] literal and string distinction

[Thomas Krebs]

hi,

A file format I have to read does not distiguish between literals and
strings. So at any time a string value can have the value of a literal.
Is there any reasonable way of dealing with that?

I'm thinking of something like what is accomplished with the
options "testLiterals" of the lexer which I would like to be able to set
in rules from the parser.

Currently my rules in the parser honour the literals wherever a
string can occur, which is quite ugly.

Any solution?
Thomas