[antlr-interest] (follow up) setting, altering text in lexer rules

Terence Parr parrt at cs.usfca.edu
Mon Jun 12 16:20:02 PDT 2006


On Jun 12, 2006, at 3:02 PM, Don Caton wrote:
> IMO, it might be better to determine what features are (and aren't)
> necessary, and then leave it up to the individual language  
> implementers to
> figure out how to implement them in the target language in the most
> efficient manner possible.
>
> You're really wearing two hats here: the architect, and the Java
> implementer.  I hope that when you're wearing the first hat you're  
> designing
> the best parser you can, not the best parser implemented in Java  
> that you
> can.

Well the ! thing has always been a pain in the ass ;)  I'd rather opt  
for speed for now with a workable solution and see what happens in  
the future. :)

Ter


More information about the antlr-interest mailing list