On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 2:57 AM, Till Varoquaux <till.varoquaux@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Is there any fundamental reason I am missing why newlines are not
>  handled natively in the generated automaton?

My guess is that this is for the times you're working on the output of
a preprocessor.  It's common for preprocessors to add extra lines that
shouldn't be counted for error reporting purposes.  I agree that there
should be better support for the common case, though.  That's why I
reported this feature request for a helper function to factor out some
of the boilerplate code, which was granted:

http://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=3930

Cheers,
-n8

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