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

[Sam Barnett-Cormack]

Terence Parr wrote:
> 
> On Mar 21, 2009, at 12:12 PM, Sam Barnett-Cormack wrote:
> 
>> 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?
> 
> That's basically it.  .* means
> 
> while (!EOF) consume()
> 
> at moment.  makes no sense.

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?

-- 
Sam Barnett-Cormack