RE: Java Comment-Preserving Grammar

Hi Quinn,


Thanks for your detailed response. It does look like these solutions
are outside the scope of my work. It is interesting that something
with obvious applications in hypertext markup of source code is still
in theoretical development -- but the wheels are turning as you show!


I have found a relatively cheap way to handle comments, which involves
pre-filtering those of interest and making them first class elements of
my parse tree.


The standard java grammar has then been augmented to support these new
elements.


ie:


public /*#result*/ int x;


becomes


public result int x;


when I parse it. It looks like this area of grammars and parsing
is still in (active) development.


It's not what I was originally after, but at least it can automatically
catch mistyped /*# ... */ comments at the parsing phase, which wouldn't be
possible by my original idea.


Many thanks again,
Matt

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