[antlr-interest] Why won't this match...

Olivier Lefevre lefevrol at yahoo.com
Sun Feb 24 17:11:17 PST 2008


Terence Parr wrote:
> This is because of: 
> http://www.antlr.org:8888/browse/ANTLR-189

I don't quite follow. From looking at the generated code it is clear that 
once it sees 'wib' it goes straight for BIG_TOKEN (because it is the 
longest match?) and does not consider the alternative when that fails. How 
does that relate to "[the problem is] that any char can follow a token"?

Thanks,

-- O.L.



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