JDK 16 is out! Though JDK 16 was released on 16 March, a week ago, I only became aware of that a few days later on March 20. Once I saw that news item, I figured I would just immediately add support for the new JDK 16 language features to JavaCC. It didn’t take me …
Since I picked up my work on the JavaCC codebase at the end of 2019, various people have broached to me this question of strings that can (or should) be broken into tokens differently based on the context where they are encountered. I have to admit that it took me a while to grasp just …
“You can’t get there from here!” — The Problem of Context-Sensitive Tokenization Read More »
In the beginning there was… CommonTokenAction Legacy JavaCC had (and still has) a means of applying whatever adjustments (a.k.a. kludges) to a Token just before it is handed off to the parser machinery. You could define a method called CommonTokenAction in your Lexer TokenManager class and this method is invoked when you get another Token …