[antlr-interest] Retaining comments

[Darien Hager]

On 2/27/08, Gavin Lambert <antlr at mirality.co.nz> wrote:
>
> At 06:06 28/02/2008, Blake Meike wrote:
>   >Unfortunately, every call to the lexer action is called
>   >before any call to any parser action, as if the entire
>   >source file were converted to tokens, before any token
>   >is fed to the parser.
>
>
> Because that's exactly what does happen.
>
>
I originally had this same kind of assumption in my ongoing experience as a
newbie user. The combined grammar originally gave me a sort of mental model
that lexer rules were a special subset of parser rules, special because they
were the leafy tree endpoints that were actually checked against the raw
data as a given rule was invoked.

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