[antlr-interest] C# TARGET ANNOUNCEMENTS

[Micheal J]

Johannes,

> > The standard java runtime has no equivalent to the old 
> Token class in C#.
> > CommonToken and ClassicToken implement IToken but are otherwise 
> > unrelated (nor should they be). Token is useful for 
> injecting common 
> > behaviour when in custom variants of the runtime.
> 
> Firstly, people can create an own Token base class when truly 
> necessary. 
> Secondly, if we don't need it (which is because ClassicToken 
> implements ANTLR v2 behaviour and CommonToken implements 
> ANTLR v3 behaviour) then it doesn't make sense to include it.
> 
> I really can't see why anyone would try to combine both 
> classes or to create another variant, which doesn't follow 
> the behaviour of ClassicToken or CommonToken. For the latter, 
> I don't know if there is even a third possibility of 
> semantics. It must be truly an oddball which we as runtime 
> people for standard ANTLR shouldn't care about.

Not sure what to make of your opinions above.

I was just answering the question you asked about CommonToken (i.e. "does
CommonToken already fulfil the role of Token in the C# runtime?"). It
doesn't.

> > Might be worth checking if Prebuild be moulded to generate 
> Nant files 
> > that can build docs, the distro archives etc in addition to 
> building 
> > the assemblies...
> 
> The distro archives? You mean the daily builds? For that 
> using the ant-build is sufficient. One could add to the 
> ant-build the building of the runtime targets at least as an 
> option, as this would simplify things further.

No. Not the ANTLR tool builds. I was referring to the ANTLR C# runtime
distribution archives. For the downloads page.

I don't expect that C# devs would be happy to use Ant to build C# bits when
Nant exists. Conversely, I doubt that replacing the Ant build with a Nant
build would please Java devs wishing to build the java-based ANTLR tool
itself or indeed the java runtime. Same for C, Python....


Micheal

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