source: trunk/yao/share/antlr-2.7.7/lib/csharp/antlr.runtime/antlr/TokenCreator.cs @ 1

namespace antlr
{
        using System;

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        /// <summary>
        /// A creator of Token object instances.
        /// </summary>
        /// <remarks>
        /// <para>
        /// This class and it's sub-classes exists primarily as an optimization
        /// of the reflection-based mechanism(s) previously used exclusively to 
        /// create instances of Token objects.
        /// </para>
        /// <para>
        /// Since Lexers in ANTLR use a single Token type, each TokenCreator can 
        /// create one class of Token objects (that's why it's not called TokenFactory).
        /// </para>
        /// </remarks>
        public abstract class TokenCreator
        {
                /// <summary>
                /// Returns the fully qualified name of the Token type that this
                /// class creates.
                /// </summary>
                public abstract string TokenTypeName
                {
                        get;
                }

                /// <summary>
                /// Constructs a <see cref="Token"/> instance.
                /// </summary>
                public abstract IToken Create();
        }
}