[fpc-devel] [patch] pscanner: differentiate between EOL & Tab characters from general Whitespace

[Marco van de Voort]

In our previous episode, Michael Van Canneyt said:

> I cannot accept this patch as it is.
> 
> It breaks the parser, more specifically NextToken.
> The parser ignores whitespace. It should also ignore the new tokens.

> Other than that, I doubt the usefulness of this patch. 
> You are on the wrong track with what you attempt to do.

He wants the source as a kind of DOM model. That is IMHO a valid use, but I
doubt it is unifiable with the current parser.

This is typically one of the reasons why the "one parser to rule them all"
approach is flawed.