[antlr-interest] Avoiding the generation of final methods

[Patrick Schönbach]

On 16.04.2009 17:29, Sam Barnett-Cormack wrote:
> Why do you want the parse methods to be non-final? You can subclass the 
> lexer/parser as long as the *class* isn't final. You just can't override 
> the final methods, and it's probably not a great idea to be overriding 
> the actual parse methods themselves.

For example, think of a parser that adds location info.

Regards,
Patrick

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