Re: Parsing C#-like generics

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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