[antlr-interest] adding enum token types output for java target

[Jim Idle]

On Mon, 2008-05-26 at 09:52 -0700, Terence Parr wrote:

> Howdy folks,
> 
> The C target gets a .h file as output to define tokens etc...  Brian  
> Goetz, Sun smarty pants, asked me about generating an enum from ANTLR  
> to make it easier for IDEs and other tools to use reflection to get  
> token types and other goodies.  It took me 2 minutes and a few  
> template lines to make this happen (i.e., no code generator changes).   
> Should I add this for 3.1?  Should it be added at all?
> 
> Note that we still need a textbased ID=34 type file for data  
> interchange with nonjava tools etc...
> 
> Given the late release stage, I could do for java and leave such a  
> change for other targets to 3.2, though it's trivial to add.
> 
> Votes?


Yeah - I think you should do that. I thought about using enum a bit more
int he generated C code, but for most C compilers there is as yet little
difference.

> 
> Ter
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