[Mono-bugs] [Bug 77032][Nor] Changed - gmcs error

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Changed by miguel at ximian.com.

http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=77032

--- shadow/77032	2005-12-19 07:05:13.000000000 -0500
+++ shadow/77032.tmp.24223	2005-12-19 16:02:20.000000000 -0500
@@ -3,13 +3,13 @@
 Version: 1.1
 OS: GNU/Linux [Other]
 OS Details: 
 Status: NEW   
 Resolution: 
 Severity: Unknown
-Priority: Wishlist
+Priority: Normal
 Component: C#
 AssignedTo: rharinath at novell.com                            
 ReportedBy: ddulai at bloomberg.net               
 QAContact: mono-bugs at ximian.com
 TargetMilestone: ---
 URL: 
@@ -37,6 +37,26 @@
 Mono C# compiler version 1.1.11.0
 
 ------- Additional Comments From rharinath at novell.com  2005-12-19 07:05 -------
 This is somewhat hard to do with the current codebase.  We eventually
 need a backtracking parser to implement the generics grammar.
 
+
+------- Additional Comments From miguel at ximian.com  2005-12-19 16:02 -------
+Using a better parser would be nice, but we can not afford to redo the
+parser at this point.  Errors like this will be fairly common.
+
+The good news is that this should be relatively easy to fix, the
+tokenizer has a routine that tries to determine if what follows a "<"
+is a generic expression or not.  
+
+This routine basically is basically a micro-parser only for
+expressions and it only has to determine if something is a generic
+expression or not.
+
+Notice that this micro-parsing would also be needed for a new compiler
+as the grammar is ambiguous.  It was explicitly spelled out that this
+would require a custom tokenizer in the ecma meetings.
+
+So all we have to do is to improve our micro-parser in "parse_less_than".
+
+Maybe Martin should look into this though


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