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by Huw Collingbourne.
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Over the last couple of weeks I've been playing fairly intensively with Antlr 3.1. Antlr 3 is the latest upgrade to Terrence Parr's Antlr parsing tool and was released in May last year. However, ‘upgrade' is the wrong word – it's a total rewrite and well and truly breaks backwards compatibility. Normally, I have a real downer on things that break backwards compatibility, but in this case I think it's justified. Still, the question is: 9 months after (...)