Pull request #176merged on 1 October 2026
Doctrine Lexer: our changes to an open source project
A base for lexers used by recursive descent parsers in PHP, used by Doctrine ORM among others.
Doctrine Lexer
github.com/doctrine/lexer- Language
- PHP
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- 11,143
- Project site
- doctrine-project.org
1merged change
Merged on 1 October 2026.
Number 17 of the 64 GitHub projects with our changes, by stars. First is Zed (91,587).
The change merged into Doctrine Lexer
resetPosition() accepts a token's character offset, so you can return exactly to the place in the text the token came from.
What it taught us
A lexer position is two different things: a token index and a place in the text. An API must say clearly which one it expects.
Other projects with our changes: PHP
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Doctrine Lexer among all our changes
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1 merged change in Doctrine Lexer
Merged on 1 October 2026.
On the same day
Changes of ours were also merged into: Zed.
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