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|    Tom Copeland to Chris F Clark    |
|    Re: Seeking recommendations for a Visual    |
|    12 Dec 07 19:46:33    |
   
   From: tom@infoether.com   
      
   On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 02:00 -0500, Chris F Clark wrote:   
   > JavaCC, a spin-off of ANTLR, with a very active community and some   
   > nice add-on tools (JTB and JJTREE). Unfortunately, I think it is   
   > Java only.   
      
   Correct - JavaCC only produces Java lexers/parsers at the moment.   
      
   Also, I'd recommend JJTree over JTB since JTB doesn't support all the   
   current JavaCC lexical constructs. For example, JTB can't handle token   
   definitions that contain repetition ranges, e.g.:   
      
   TOKEN : {   
   
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