Posted 19 years ago by Greg Shaffer - Boulder
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I noticed that I can figure out what type a token is by looking at the token's key property. Where are these strings defined? Is there an enumeration somewhere? Do you have const strings defined?

I'm talking about "PunctuationToken, IdentifierToken, WhitespaceToken, etc."

I figure that if I'm to populate my token's ISemanticParseData in the PostParse function of a semantic parser that I'd want to optimize my code for performance sake. In other words, I'd like to avoid doing unnecessary string comparisions, which means that I'm hoping there's an enumeration.

I'm also not sure why this field is named "key". If it is only a type, then maybe a name like "TokenType" might be more appropriate.

Or, maybe I'm not supposed to be using that field?

Thanks,
Greg

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Posted 19 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA
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Those are strings you define in your language definition files. Strings are generally keys. We may add a numeric id value as well for a future version that would allow for faster compares to enumerations that you can define.


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Posted 19 years ago by Greg Shaffer - Boulder
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Ah Ha...

Thanks,
Greg
The latest build of this product (v24.1.0) was released 2 months ago, which was after the last post in this thread.

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