[antlr-interest] Understanding Lexer rules
Micke Hovmöller
micke.hovmoller at gmail.com
Wed Feb 20 06:03:36 PST 2008
On 2/20/08, Mark Volkmann <r.mark.volkmann at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This really bothers me. Every time this subject comes up it seems that
> people talk about what they *think* happens, using words like "I
> believe", "sort-of" and "usually". Gavin, I'm not faulting you. You're
> supplying as much information as you have which is helpful. I just
> wish that someone who knows for sure would speak up and put the
> definitive information in the wiki so we can stop speculating on how
> the lexer chooses the next rule to apply.
I'd like to second this motion, and just add that this information
will have to include some quite detailed and specific examples. This
seems like the sort of thing that is just too complex for most people
to understand without examples.
/Micke
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