For some time, it has been a goal of JavaCC 21 to provide the ability to generate fault-tolerant parsers. I started working on the problem about a year ago. However, I had not put in a comprehensive solution until now for several reasons. Basically these: The codebase, though already significantly refactored and cleaned up, was …
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A Little Parlor Game As I pointed out earlier here, in this parser space, there is a great tendency to express concepts — that, once understood, are actually quite simple — in a very abstruse, obfuscated manner. Recently, I was musing about a little conceptual experiment with some real comic potential. Imagine if basic Mathematics …
It had been in the back of my mind nagging me for some time, thinking that we would eventually need some sort of preprocessor functionality moving forward, to support output for different programming languages (besides Java) and actually, even different Java targets. I had also been looking more closely at C# recently and finally, I …