> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:antlr-interest- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Christian Nentwich > Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 11:17 AM > To: [email protected] > > > > I am not sure what you mean by scale to be honest. Performing an > upcase in > > LA isn't much of an overhead compared to everything else. I use this > on my > > SQL grammars with no problems and there are hundreds of keywords to > > recognize. But if you prefer JFlex, then so be it :-) > > > > Jim > > > > You saying that made me somewhat suspicious that I might have > overlooked > something, and indeed it seems so; I made an assumption that the > character > data of tokens was being converted to upper case by that solution, but > on > second reading it seems that this is only done for matching purposes. I > have > lots of stuff (quoted strings, etc) that must not be touched. Hm. I may > rethink :)
Yes - the common case is that you don't want to change the input code, just test it in a case insensitive way. That's why the solution just matches and leaves the input alone. Jim List: http://www.antlr.org/mailman/listinfo/antlr-interest Unsubscribe: http://www.antlr.org/mailman/options/antlr-interest/your-email-address -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "il-antlr-interest" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/il-antlr-interest?hl=en.
