[antlr-interest] proposal: make .* and .+ always nongreedy

[Sam Harwell]

Just .* EOF
Would work too. :)

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:antlr-interest-bounces at antlr.org] On Behalf Of Terence Parr
Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 2:18 PM
To: Sam Barnett-Cormack
Cc: ANTLR Interest Mailing List
Subject: Re: [antlr-interest] proposal: make .* and .+ always nongreedy


On Mar 21, 2009, at 12:16 PM, Sam Barnett-Cormack wrote:
>
> I'm inclined to agree with you, then... is there a need to provide  
> an option to allow people to get at the current behaviour if they  
> really want to?

they can shoot foot with

( options {greedy=true;} : . )*

:)

Ter

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