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Fondement Frederic

Tree parsers are often used in type checkers. But useful error messages need the offending line number. So I have written:

import antlr.CommonAST;
import antlr.Token;
public class CommonASTWithLines extends CommonAST {
     private int line = 0;
     public void initialize(Token tok) {
          super.initialize(tok);
          line=tok.getLine();
     }
     public int getLine(){
          return line;
     }
}

initialize is automatically called when an AST is created from a Token object, which has its own line variable.