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Revisiting LOOKAHEAD in JavaCC, Attacking the Dmitry Dmitriyevich Problem

As a result of some private correspondence with one of the PMD developers (PMD makes extensive use of JavaCC) I started thinking about some issues that I had in the back of my mind to look into at a later point. Having recently ripped out the code in JavaCC 21 that supported putting LOOKAHEAD specifications …

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About to rip out JAVACODE productions. Does anybody object to this?

You know, I bet there are some long-term users of JavaCC who aren’t even aware that JavaCC has this thing called a JAVACODE production. (If you were unaware of this, you weren’t missing much!) Basically, the idea is that you can define something that is, to all intents and purposes, just a plain old java …

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