(The TLDR: Nested lookahead was always broken in legacy JavaCC. This is finally fully addressed (as of 11/26/2022) in JavaCC 21. However, since this fix has a lot of potential to break existing code, for now, the fix is only in effect if you put LEGACY_GLITCHY_LOOKAHEAD=false at the top of your grammar(s). Meanwhile, you should …
"It’s too big! It doesn’t fit!" The above does not refer to any particular pornographic feature film, but rather, to a longstanding problem in JavaCC: if you write a very big, complex lexical grammar, the generated XXXTokenManager would fail to compile, with the compiler reporting the error: "Code too large". Well, this has now been …
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