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Parsing C#-like generics

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Hi,

I'm having some trouble parsing generics when mixed with comparisons. The
way I try to do it, there is an ambiguity between LessThan and a "list of
types between angle brackets".
For example, x<x>(x<x) should be syntactically OK, and it should be parsed
to a function call x with a type parameter list < x > and a single argument
which is the expression x<x (ok not really, I threw in semantics here to
make it clearer, the actual result should just be an AST).
My parser generator (GOLD parsing system) complains about a shift-reduce
error, and the parser it produces doesn't want to parse any expression with
a LessThan in it because it believes that to be a incomplete type list
(lacking a closing > )

I know it is actually inherently ambiguous, because t<t2>(t3) could mean two
things:
- LessThan(t, BiggerThan(t2, t3)
- invoke t<t2> with argument t3
In that case I want to pick option two.
For t<t2>t3 I want to pick option one, not report "missing ( "

Can this be done with an LALR parser at all? If so, how?

harold

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Parsing C#-like generics "Harold Aptroot" <harold.aptroot@gmail.com> - 2011-07-11 20:22 +0200
  Re: Parsing C#-like generics Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@aol.com> - 2011-07-12 13:25 +0100
    Re: Parsing C#-like generics BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-07-14 13:13 -0700
  Re: Parsing C#-like generics BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-07-12 16:39 -0700
  Re: Parsing C#-like generics "Ben L. Titzer" <ben.titzer@gmail.com> - 2011-07-13 10:19 -0700

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