[antlr-interest] proposal: new properties or Token methods
Johannes Luber
jaluber at gmx.de
Fri Dec 28 13:37:09 PST 2007
Terence Parr schrieb:
> hi. I find myself doing Integer.valueOf($label.text) a lot. Integer
> values are so common in languages that perhaps we should define
> $label.int and maybe label.float? Or, is it simpler to just define
>
> public int toInt();
> public float toFloat();
> public double toDouble();
>
> in Token interface? I guess I'll try that first.
Adding properties to labels seems to be less language-dependent. So I'd
prefer this approach. BTW, what is supposed to happen, when the label
contains "abc" instead?
Johannes
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