ANTLR

I was looking around for better ways to do my lexer. Writing a lexer by hand is/was educational and fun. But it's also a royal pain, which is the biggest reason that you have products like ANTLR in the first place.

So I pulled it down, created a grammar, and bamm I had a nice little scanner in place. The problem? The scanner itself is now 4 times the size of the rest of the application.

Is this really an issue? It depends. I was rather excited by the fact that I had created something so small and I know exactly what it's doing. The ANTLR scanner is nice and a better design. But there's a lot of magic going on there that leaves me uncomfortable.

For right now, I'm, sticking to my scanner and working on enhancing it.