(To get some prerequisite understanding of this topic, it might be a good idea to read this earlier blog post on context-sensitive tokenization from three months ago.) The Lay of the Land There are two quite useful ideas that have been in JavaCC from the very beginning: lookahead (particularly syntactic lookahead) lexical states Syntactic lookahead …
Context-Sensitive Tokenizing, Part Deux: Lexical States Read More »
Greetings, comrades! My name is Vladimir Vladimirovich Vladimirov! Hey, whassup, Vlad! As a follow-on to my blog post of a couple of days ago there were a couple of t’s that needed crossing and an ‘i’ or two that needed a dot. Let’s see… First of all, I misspoke a little bit in that post. …
Tree Building Redux: Nailing another Dmitry Dmitriyevich problem Read More »
Before getting into what the minor enhancements to tree building are, I guess I should write a quick synopsis of the current state of affairs. When you have TREE_BUILDING_ENABLED set to true (this is the default in JavaCC21) the tree building machinery will build a Node if the production results in the creation of more …
Tastes just like home-made! (Some more tree building enhancements) Read More »
I recently introduced a couple of "pseudo-annotations" (I’ll explain the pseudo part later) that can be used in code injections to express things in a much more succint manner. Here is an example: INJECT Foo : { @property String name; … } and the code generated in Foo.java corresponding to that line will be: private …
In conjunction with New Year 2021 (a landmark year for JavaCC 21 for sure!) I decided to scratch some longstanding itches — even at the expense of introducing some (minor) backward incompatibilities. The various option settings can only be set in the grammar file. There was a longstanding setup in legacy JavaCC (carried forward in …
Happy New Year! Some Backward-Incompatible API Changes! Read More »