[antlr-interest] Selectively disabling lexer rules

[MenTaLguY]

On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 10:28 -0800, Terence Parr wrote:

> Ugh...ruby is full of these landmines...why do languages by people  
> who don't know how to parse become popular!??  ugh.

Probably because, in terms of a language's userbase, people who write
parsers for it are a scant minority.  Consequently, there's relatively
little incentive to make languages with easy-to-parse grammars.

Sucks for us.

-mental
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