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Subject: Re: question on java lang spec chapter 3.3 (unicode char lexing)
From: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <Aryeh.Friedman@gmail.com>
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On Wednesday, January 2, 2013 8:27:21 PM UTC-5, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
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> > Well - since he is writing a lexer for Java then ...
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> A little more on the project... while the over all project *IS* for fun a=
 few components may find there way into more serious work related projects =
but only to be used on code written by me or others on my team... specifica=
lly we may use the lexing/parsing component to make the following tools (th=
e actual code generation/etc. of the compilation is currently purely fun [s=
ee note]):
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> 1. Scan for a complete list of classes referenced by a given class (our b=
uild system sometimes hiccups on not realizing that when class X calls an i=
nstance of class Y and Y has been modified it needs to recompile X {if, and=
 only  if, the signature(s) have changed})
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> 2. Do some minor style enforcement like warning (have not decided if it s=
hould reject or just warn) if a class/method does not have something that a=
t least looks like a javadoc header comment (/** ... */ is sufficient for t=
his purpose)
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> Note:
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> A long term personal project of mine is to write a OS completely from the=
 ground up in a super set of Java (the only addition I see that is needed i=
s some type of "safe" pointer type)... in this case safe being defined as y=
ou can assign a literal address to it but your not allowed to do ptr math o=
n it

In case anyone is interested I have some personal notes on the project at h=
ttp://dt.fnwe.net/a-javacNative/