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

[Sam Barnett-Cormack]

Terence Parr wrote:
> http://www.antlr.org/jira/browse/ANTLR-392
> 
> any objections?

Would this effectively make

rule : .* (some-exit-set)

into

rule : ~(some-exit-set)* (some-exit-set)

Except, presumably, for magic with predicates and LL(*) cunningness?

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Sam Barnett-Cormack