From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Ben Elliston <bje@redhat.com>
To: Mo DeJong <mdejong@cygnus.com>
Cc: <sourcenav@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Subject: Re: Java hiccups
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 18:16:00 -0000
Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0101161314220.23569-100000@moshpit.cygnus.com>
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X-SW-Source: 2001-q1/msg00021.html

mdejong wrote:

   We are talking about the "right" way to fix it but it is going to
   require some work. The GCJ based parser would work for Java code that
   would compile, but fuzzy Java parsing is a much harder problem.

Having had a couple of years to ponder this issue, I'm coming to the
conlusion that perhaps the correct parsing of correct programs should come
before the best-effort parsing of incorrect programs.  Perhaps fuzzy parsing
should take a back seat?

Ben