javac lexer parser rewrite

[Jonathan Gibbons]

On 02/08/2012 08:55 AM, Rémi Forax wrote:
>
> The problem is more the parser than the lexer.
>
> A good project should be to write a parser generator that takes the 
> Java grammar
> and generates the same code as the existing parser, by the way. 

The outcome of the compiler-grammar project was that there are 
effectively 3 grammars, close but not necessarily equal.

1. The rules embedded in chapters 1-17 of JLS.

2. The rules in chapter 18 of JLS

3. The grammar accepted by javac.

A good project would be to identify the differences between these 
grammars. :-)

-- Jon