A couple of weeks ago, I implemented a solution to a longstanding Dmitry Dmitriyevich problem with LOOKAHEAD specifications in JavaCC. Dmitry Dmitriyevich (alternatively Ivan Ivanovich or Vladimir Vladimirovich) is my own personal terminology for situations where you are required to write highly repetitive code. (Patriotic Irishmen are welcome to call this the Patrick Fitzpatrick or Gerald …
As a result of some private correspondence with one of the PMD developers (PMD makes extensive use of JavaCC) I started thinking about some issues that I had in the back of my mind to look into at a later point. Having recently ripped out the code in JavaCC 21 that supported putting LOOKAHEAD specifications …
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Programmatically generating code is a little world in itself, with its own little quirks and tricks. Consider the generation of the C-style switch-case with fall-through. You have your code generation that generates all your cases, and each case ends with a break. There is a problem, which is that the moment any of your case …