> On Dec 10, 2004, at 2:25 PM, Paul J. Lucas wrote:
>> On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Terence Parr wrote:

>>> Hm...perhaps I should just make it catch ANTLRException, the root,
>>> instead?
>>        That would work also (and should fix the problem once and for
>>        all).

> Oh, I think I remember now.  Definitely had to do with
> TokenRetryException.  I wanted to be able to blast out of the lexer
> entirely on an exception to force the a token stream switch to flip to
> another lexer and retry.  If I made that part of the same hierarchy
> under RecognitionException then you couldn't do the retry.  I
> specifically made it separate.  Hmm...seems like we need it.

>  From the comment on the interface, "Anything that goes wrong while
> generating a stream of tokens", I think I meant to be different than
> recognition issues.  For the life of me though, I can't remember
> expecting lexer *recognition* exceptions to make it to the parser.  
> Yet, that is what the code says.  Bizarre.  The lexer should just look
> for another token.

> Ok, i'll look into it.
> Ter
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