That sounds like really awesome progress, woohoo!!!!
Congratulations!!!

Guillaume

On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 10:50 AM, Paul King <pa...@asert.com.au> wrote:

> Nice work everyone!
>
> On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 6:33 PM, ? ? <realblue...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Groovy-Dev,
> >
> >     The new parser for groovy has reached another milestone, it now can
> > handle almost all source code of Groovy in Action 2nd Edition(612 pass /
> 613
> > total), all source code of grails-core-3.1.8(1212 pass / 1212 total) and
> > other source code(447 pass / 447 total). Here is the details of the test
> > cases:
> > http://ci.groovy-lang.org/viewType.html?buildTypeId=Groovy_Antlr4grammar
> >
> >
> >      The following list shows our main work (
> > https://github.com/jespersm/groovy/commits/antlr4 ):
> >
> > 1)  Fully support command expression
> > 2)  Enhance command expression to make it act as an expression, e.g.
> >
> > assert (1.plus 2 plus 3) + (2.plus 3 plus 4) == 15
> > assert Math.max((1.plus 2 plus 3), (2.plus 3 plus 4)) == 9
> >
> > 3)  Save doc comment(e.g. groovydoc) as node meta data to simplify
> > generating groovydoc files
> > 4)  Correct the precedence of some operators
> > 5)  Support "break" and "continue" with label
> > 6)  Support inner interface
> > 7)  Support class constant of Java style, e.g. java.lang.Integer.class
> > 8)  Support call on parenthesis expression and contants, e.g.
> >
> > ((int) 1 / 2)(1, 2) {} {} (2, 3, 4) {}
> > (((int) 1 / 2))(1, 2) {} {} (2, 3, 4) {}
> > (m())()
> > ((Integer)m())()
> >
> > 'm'() + /aa/() + $/bb/$() + "$m"() + /a${'x'}a/() + $/b${'x'}b/$() +
> > 1.2('b') + 1('a') + 2() + null() + true() + false() + a() + {a,b->}(1,
> 2) +
> > [1, 2]() + [a:1, b:2]() + new int[0]() + new Integer(1)()
> >
> > 9)   Fix a lot of bugs
> >
> >      Our TODO list shows as follows:
> >
> > 1) Add Groovy source code as test cases to build Groovy itself by the new
> > parser
> > 2) Support call on built-in type and class name
> > 3) Verify operator precedence
> >
> > 4) Improve the performance of the new parser
> > 5) Friendly prompt messages
> >
> > 6) Support lamda expression
> > 7) Support do-while, the basic control structure like java's
> >
> > 8) Support java-like new array expression, e.g. new int[] {1, 2, 3}
> >
> >       Finally, we want to thank Jochen, who offers us a lot of
> suggestions
> > on refining the new parser especially on the command expression support.
> >
> > p.s. If you want to play with the new parser, try:
> >
> > $ git clone -b antlr4 https://github.com/jespersm/groovy.git
> > $ cd groovy
> > $ ./gradlew -PuseAntlr4=true console
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Daniel.Sun
>



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