Let's stop parser Hell

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Mon Jul 9 00:16:41 PDT 2012


On 2012-07-09 08:39, Jonathan M Davis wrote:

> lambdas are a bit older than that IIRC, and I don't think that UFCS actually
> affects the lexer or parser. Yes, changes are still made, but they're
> increasingly rare, and most of the stuff being changed is on the semantic level
> (most of which is bug fixes). So, out of all of the parts of the compiler to
> duplicate, those are the least likely to have to have major changes made to
> them later (especially the lexer).

I'm pretty sure UFCS affects lexing or parsing. How else would this be 
legal:

4.foo();

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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