Yield as contextual keyword

[Gavin Bierman]

Upon reflection, the simplest way out of this is to not go down the path of trying to identify tokens so that the lexer knows something about parsing, but rather follow the suggestion made by Dan earlier in this thread. To wit, we treat `yield` much like we treat `var`. It’s a "restricted identifier", which means that it can’t be used as a *TypeIdentifier* nor as a *MethodName*. Thus any unqualified method invocation needs to be qualified (or in the extreme corner case involving an anonymous class spotted by Tagir, may need (local) renaming). Without qualification, `yield (42);` will be *parsed* as a `yield` statement and not an expression statement. Our corpus analysis, as reported by Brian, shows this not to be a problem. Tagir’s analysis of the Idea Ultimate sources suggests the same.

The revised JLS is available at: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~gbierman/jep354-jls-20190528.html

Thanks,
Gavin 



> On 24 May 2019, at 23:44, Alex Buckley <alex.buckley at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> On 5/24/2019 1:19 PM, Tagir Valeev wrote:
>> Hello! Answering myself
>> 
>>>> The first token in a YieldStatement production is always preceded
>>>> by one of these separator tokens: ;, {, }, ), or ->.
>>> 
>>> Seems I'm missing something. Could you please illustrate in which
>>> case YieldStatement could be preceded by ')'?
>> 
>> Nevermind. if(foo) yield bar; is a good example. Other my points
>> still apply.
>> 
>>> Also what about '->'? In lambda '->' is followed by an expression
>>> or block, but not a statement. In switch '->' is followed by block,
>>> throw or expression plus semicolon. Also could YieldStatement be
>>> preceded by ':' in old switch format? E.g.
>>> 
>>> System.out.println(switch(0) { default: yield 1; }); // seems
>>> legit
> 
> You're right that `->` should not appear in the list. Any `yield` which follows `->` is necessarily the start of an expression, so `yield` should be tokenized as an identifier there.
> 
> `:` is tricky. On the one hand, the space after `:` is sometimes desirous of an statement, so tokenize `yield` as a keyword:
> 
> - `default : yield (1);` in a switch expression (also `case ... :`)
> 
> - `L1 : yield (1);` in a switch expression (labeled statements are legitimate in a switch-labeled block! If there was no label, we would quickly say that this `yield` is a YieldStatement not an ExpressionStatement, and that if you want an ExpressionStatement which invokes a method, then qualify the invocation.)
> 
> On the other hand, the space after `:` is sometimes desirous of an expression, so tokenize `yield` as a identifier: (and it might be the name of a local variable, so no way to qualify)
> 
> - `for (String s : yield . f) ...`
> 
> - `m(a ? yield . f : yield . g)`
> 
> Alex

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