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

[Sam Harwell]

Absolutely (as in I like the idea, no objection). You can always add .*
(nothing) or .* EOF if you want to match to the end. Clearly someone who
writes .* (anything not EOF) is not trying to read to the end. :)

The following is not greedy/works great already:

ML_COMMENT
	:	'/*' .* '*/'
	;

-----Original Message-----
From: antlr-interest-bounces at antlr.org
[mailto:antlr-interest-bounces at antlr.org] On Behalf Of Terence Parr
Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 1:57 PM
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Subject: [antlr-interest] proposal: make .* and .+ always nongreedy

http://www.antlr.org/jira/browse/ANTLR-392

any objections?

Ter



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