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      3  Copyright (c) 2005-2009 Terence Parr
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     27  */
     28 package org.antlr.runtime;
     29 
     30 import java.util.List;
     31 
     32 /** A stream of tokens accessing tokens from a TokenSource */
     33 public interface TokenStream extends IntStream {
     34     /** Get Token at current input pointer + i ahead where i=1 is next Token.
     35 	 *  i<0 indicates tokens in the past.  So -1 is previous token and -2 is
     36 	 *  two tokens ago. LT(0) is undefined.  For i>=n, return Token.EOFToken.
     37 	 *  Return null for LT(0) and any index that results in an absolute address
     38 	 *  that is negative.
     39 	 */
     40     public Token LT(int k);
     41 
     42 	/** How far ahead has the stream been asked to look?  The return
     43 	 *  value is a valid index from 0..n-1.
     44 	 */
     45 	int range();
     46 
     47 	/** Get a token at an absolute index i; 0..n-1.  This is really only
     48 	 *  needed for profiling and debugging and token stream rewriting.
     49 	 *  If you don't want to buffer up tokens, then this method makes no
     50 	 *  sense for you.  Naturally you can't use the rewrite stream feature.
     51 	 *  I believe DebugTokenStream can easily be altered to not use
     52 	 *  this method, removing the dependency.
     53 	 */
     54 	public Token get(int i);
     55 
     56 	/** Where is this stream pulling tokens from?  This is not the name, but
     57 	 *  the object that provides Token objects.
     58 	 */
     59 	public TokenSource getTokenSource();
     60 
     61 	/** Return the text of all tokens from start to stop, inclusive.
     62 	 *  If the stream does not buffer all the tokens then it can just
     63 	 *  return "" or null;  Users should not access $ruleLabel.text in
     64 	 *  an action of course in that case.
     65 	 */
     66 	public String toString(int start, int stop);
     67 
     68 	/** Because the user is not required to use a token with an index stored
     69 	 *  in it, we must provide a means for two token objects themselves to
     70 	 *  indicate the start/end location.  Most often this will just delegate
     71 	 *  to the other toString(int,int).  This is also parallel with
     72 	 *  the TreeNodeStream.toString(Object,Object).
     73 	 */
     74 	public String toString(Token start, Token stop);
     75 }
     76