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Re: Parsing C#-like generics

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From Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@aol.com>
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Harold Aptroot schrieb:

> 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).

IMO you should better separate declarations from code (statements,
expressions). Then the parser will "know" from that context, that a
declaration can contain  <x> type lists, but not x<y expressions.

Above example should parse better as
   x<x>{x<x}
where the C style braces around statement blocks allow for better
disambiguation of the < token.

DoDi

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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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