added * Tokens and Trees should both know their start/stop line, start/stop char position to make IDEs easier.
Ter On Mar 23, 2011, at 2:17 PM, Matt Fowles wrote: > Terence~ > > Better location management. > > Tokens and Trees should both have methods for: > > getStartLine() > getEndLine() > getStartCharPosition() > getEndCharPosition() > > Trees should base them on the tokens that they include. Synthetic > tokens should get them from the original token or the full production > they match when no original token is provide. This is especially > useful for IDEs that do several layers of rewrite before they produce > an error, as it can be difficult to match the positions exactly if > things like desugaring have happened before an error is produced. > > The methods for end position are important as IDEs use that to figure > out how far to draw the squiggle. > > Matt > > On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Terence Parr <[email protected]> wrote: >> Howdy, I'm going to start augmenting ANTLR v3 significantly to create v4. >> The goal is backward compatibility; any new functionality, of course, will >> require altering or augmenting your grammars to take advantage of it. Here >> is my potential list of updates: >> >> http://www.antlr.org/wiki/display/ANTLR4/ANTLR+v4+Wish+list >> >> Anything to add or comment on? >> >> Ter >> >> List: http://www.antlr.org/mailman/listinfo/antlr-interest >> Unsubscribe: >> http://www.antlr.org/mailman/options/antlr-interest/your-email-address >> > > List: http://www.antlr.org/mailman/listinfo/antlr-interest > Unsubscribe: > http://www.antlr.org/mailman/options/antlr-interest/your-email-address 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.
