[antlr-interest] ANTLR Lexer Contexts

[Steve Bennett]

On 11/26/07, Keith Whittingham <kwhittingham at gmail.com> wrote:
> fragment
> NORMAL_TOKEN_SET
>         :       ('a'..'z'|'A'..'Z'|'.'|'_') ('0'..'9'|'A'..'Z'|'a'..'z'|'.'|'_')*
> { tokenType = NAME; }
>         |       '[' { tokenType = OSB; context = BRACKETS; }

Thanks for posting. Is it the "fragment" here that prevents this token
always matching ahead of the other one?

Also, did you consider using return values? Might be slightly more
elegant than the quasi-global tokenType member?

Steve