If you are parsing awk, you must treat any ream of whitespace that contains a newline as a visible token, which you have to reference in various places in the g

If you are parsing awk, you must treat any ream of whitespace that contains a newline as a visible token, which you have to reference in various places in the grammar. Your implementation will likely benefit from a switch, in the lexical analyzer, which sometimes turns off the visible newline.