On 07-07-2012 23:39, Mehrdad wrote:
This might sound silly, but how about if D stopped allowing 0..2 as a range, and instead just said "invalid floating-point number"?Fixing it en masse would be pretty trivial... just run a regex to replace "\b(\d+)\.\." with "\1 .. " and you're good to go. (Or if you want more accuracy, just take the compiler output and feed it back with a fix -- that would work too.) The benefit, though, is that now you can do maximal munch without worrying about this edge case... which sure makes it easier to make a lexer. Thoughts?
... why is this even done at the lexical stage? It should be done at the parsing stage if anything.
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