Posts relating to the JavaCC roadmap for future development
A couple of weeks ago, I implemented a solution to a longstanding Dmitry Dmitriyevich problem with LOOKAHEAD specifications in JavaCC. Dmitry Dmitriyevich (alternatively Ivan Ivanovich or Vladimir Vladimirovich) is my own personal terminology for situations where you are required to write highly repetitive code. (Patriotic Irishmen are welcome to call this the Patrick Fitzpatrick or Gerald …
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 …
About to rip out JAVACODE productions. Does anybody object to this? Read More »
Today, I put in a little incremental effort on the included Java grammar and nailed the last couple of remaining cases that prevented it from parsing all of the java source files in the src.zip included in the JDK 13. There were a few remaining constructs that were still tripping it up and I finally …
Milestone: JavaCC 21 now supports the Java language up to JDK 13 Read More »
This is a response to a private email from Angelo Zerr, but finally, I thought to put my answer in public so that it could attract more general discussion. Angelo wrote me saying: I don’t know if I have explained very well my idea with tolerant, incremental parser and LSP generation project. But let for …
Fault tolerant parsing, is it a pipe dream? (An answer to Angelo Zerr) Read More »