Hi Sebastian,thanks for this nice post and for (probably, just my guess) implementing the improvements wrt. grammar mixing.I downloaded the milestone and tried your example. However, I got an error"Cannot add supertype 'Element' to sealed t…
Hi Sebastian,I see in the sources that 2.9 also adds support for casesPerSpecialStateSwitch option.For some reason when setting this field in the ANTLR fragments, it does not have any affect on the construction of the Lexer DFA (eventually
it would be interesting if you could contribute your updated solution the Eclipse Platform, so more projects would benefit from it. Thanks for your suggestion. As soon as we have a solution that is generally applicable, we'll evaluation opt…
Are there any issues with multi-threading? Usually, a final field does not have to be synchronized, so what do other threads see if you change its value? Good point. Final fields may not be marked as volatile so the Java memory model does n…
My talk about Xtend at this years JavaOne is now available in the content catalog on the conference website. After a quick motivation and the answer to the obvious question "Why the heck did these guys develop yet another JVM language?", I
If only Java had tail call optimization ;-)Funny. I think the recursive definition is more easy to read. Maybe a matter of taste... Actually it depends on taste but it's a more intuitive way to describe the intent. The refactored version is…
Do you have any tips for forcing particular error recovery for a specific rule?I have a poorly designed language where if I can't identify a segment properly, I want to pop the parsing stack until I reach a specific token. This is so I can
hi.I have specified terminal rules in my xtext file.now when i am writing the code for testing the grammar, Ctrl+Space gives me suggestions for all the keywords and all except for the data mentioned in terminals.i want the data mentioned in…
Awesome stuff!I wasn't aware there should be a separate ASG step involved.Thank you! :) Thanks, Hendy.Please note that the 'separate ASG' step is implicit with Xtext. It's often referred to as linking or reference resolution.Regards,Sebasti…
(~cast~) is giving me an error,stating primitive type expected.I tried to typecast this in the following way:ConfigurableCompletionProposal pickColor = (ConfigurableCompletionProposal) createCompletionProposal("Pick color...", context); But…
So as I mention in a tweet, I consider some things ambivalent (and need to see how they work out):- it's a (another) General Purpose Language. It may be hard to sell GPL as there are plenty of them. It is great at creating string/file outpu…
Hi,Thanks a lot for your blog post.I have long mileage on Maven, how to create single jar files, details of MANIFEST.MF, etc but near zero on tricky details of Eclipse platform. The problem I had when I executed the passes you pointed out i…