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     32 namespace Antlr.Runtime
     33 {
     34 
     35     /** <summary>A stream of tokens accessing tokens from a TokenSource</summary> */
     36     public interface ITokenStream : IIntStream
     37     {
     38         /** <summary>Get Token at current input pointer + i ahead where i=1 is next Token.
     39          *  i&lt;0 indicates tokens in the past.  So -1 is previous token and -2 is
     40          *  two tokens ago. LT(0) is undefined.  For i&gt;=n, return Token.EOFToken.
     41          *  Return null for LT(0) and any index that results in an absolute address
     42          *  that is negative.</summary>
     43          */
     44         IToken LT( int k );
     45 
     46         /// <summary>
     47         /// How far ahead has the stream been asked to look?  The return
     48         /// value is a valid index from 0..n-1.
     49         /// </summary>
     50         int Range
     51         {
     52             get;
     53         }
     54 
     55         /** <summary>
     56          *  Get a token at an absolute index i; 0..n-1.  This is really only
     57          *  needed for profiling and debugging and token stream rewriting.
     58          *  If you don't want to buffer up tokens, then this method makes no
     59          *  sense for you.  Naturally you can't use the rewrite stream feature.
     60          *  I believe DebugTokenStream can easily be altered to not use
     61          *  this method, removing the dependency.
     62          *  </summary>
     63          */
     64         IToken Get( int i );
     65 
     66         /** <summary>
     67          *  Where is this stream pulling tokens from?  This is not the name, but
     68          *  the object that provides Token objects.
     69          *  </summary>
     70          */
     71         ITokenSource TokenSource
     72         {
     73             get;
     74         }
     75 
     76         /** <summary>
     77          *  Return the text of all tokens from start to stop, inclusive.
     78          *  If the stream does not buffer all the tokens then it can just
     79          *  return "" or null;  Users should not access $ruleLabel.text in
     80          *  an action of course in that case.
     81          *  </summary>
     82          */
     83         string ToString( int start, int stop );
     84 
     85         /** <summary>
     86          *  Because the user is not required to use a token with an index stored
     87          *  in it, we must provide a means for two token objects themselves to
     88          *  indicate the start/end location.  Most often this will just delegate
     89          *  to the other toString(int,int).  This is also parallel with
     90          *  the TreeNodeStream.toString(Object,Object).
     91          *  </summary>
     92          */
     93         string ToString( IToken start, IToken stop );
     94     }
     95 }
     96