[cfe-dev] Lookahead vs. Tentative Parsing

[David Blaikie]

>
> Since C++ lambda expressions and Objective-C message expressions can
> each start with the same two tokens (l_square followed by identifier),
> it can take a lookahead of three tokens to differentiate the two cases.
>

I'm playing around with implementing this myself. But why would you need a
lookahead when these only appear in distinct languages? Currently there's a
"if objective C, start parsing a message" I was just going to add an "if
C++, start parsing a lambda" after that.

Are you working on this too?
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