[antlr-interest] Tokenising for context specific reserved words
Gavin Lambert
antlr at mirality.co.nz
Sun Jul 20 13:23:46 PDT 2008
At 04:03 21/07/2008, Raphael Reitzig wrote:
>To be consequent, one could generate one class per token type.
>Subtyping would give you what you want, I suppose.
Well, yeah, you *could* do it that way, but that seems far too
heavyweight (and wouldn't work for the C target anyway).
>Anyway, what about predefining often used tokens like
>(DOUBLE|SINGLE)_QUOTED_STRING, INT, FLOAT, WHITESPACE,
LINEBREAK,
>...?
>With the option to overwrite them, of course.
No, I don't think that's a good idea. Although having them as
easily-insertable templates in ANTLRworks could be useful.
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