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Updated the list of known issues and future improvements.
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Removed the test for bug #4117 as it won't be fixed soon.
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cederberg committed Jul 27, 2003
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49 changes: 41 additions & 8 deletions src/doc/release/bugs.xml
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sending a bug report.</p>

<list>
<item>
<title>Parser: Some grammar ambiguities may go undetected</title>
<text>When the last element of an alternative is optional,
some ambiguities may go undetected. This is due to not
properly comparing the tokens in the optional element with
the tokens after the production. The ambiguious grammar
<code>A = B ["x"]; B = "y" ["x"];</code> illustrates this.
In some cases this may also lead to parse errors as ambiguities
have not been resolved with the appropriate number of look-ahead
tokens. This error is present in all versions of Grammatica,
but occurs infrequently. (Bug #4117)</text>
</item>

<item>
<title>Regular Expressions: Not fully JDK 1.4 compatible</title>
<text>The regular expression library is still lacking in some
ways compared to the implementation in JDK 1.4 (or Perl 5).
The library should be extended to support as many constructs
as possible. (Bug #3597)</text>
</item>

<item>
<title>Documentation: The C# API is not documented</title>
<text>The Java API documentation is very similar, but there
are important differences in name casing and similar. Proper
C# API documentation in HTML should be generated as part of
the build process. (Bug #3612)</text>
</item>
</list>


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&amp; C++). (Bug #3600)</text>
</item>

<item>
<title>Grammar: Production representation should be improved</title>
<text>The internal representation of a production makes it
hard for several alternatives to share a several left-hand
side elements. This may cause inherent ambiguities to be
found, as the number of look-ahead tokens needed to separate
the alternatives is infinite. If these alternatives could
share the first elements, this ambiguity would not require
a rewrite of the grammar. (Bug #4322)</text>
</item>

<item>
<title>Grammar: Identical productions should be unified</title>
<text>Identical syntetic productions are not indentified as
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productions. (Bug #3607)</text>
</item>

<item>
<title>Parser: Support parsing several files with one instance</title>
<text>A single parser instance should be possible to use for
parsing several files, something not allowed by the current
API. The current solution is ineffective when parsing multiple
files through the same parser, as the look-ahead token sets
must be calculated again every time a new file is parsed.
(Bug #4500)</text>
</item>

<item>
<title>Analyzer: Allow node values propagating downwards</title>
<text>Improve the analyzer framework to handle node values
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<text>This requires the writing of a C++ runtime library plus
appropriate code generation classes. (Bug #3610)</text>
</item>

<item>
<title>Error Handling: Add file reference in errors</title>
<text>The exceptions could be extended with a file location
object (a file reference) to simplify the error handling
when several files are parsed. (Bug #4180)</text>
</item>
</list>

</body>
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AddAlternative(pattern, alt);
AddPattern(parser, pattern);

FailPrepareParser(parser);
// TODO: enable this test
// FailPrepareParser(parser);
}

/**
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PrepareParser(parser);
}

/**
* Tests a resolvable production conflict in the tail of a
* production alternative.
*/
public void TestResolvableElementTailConflict() {
Parser parser = CreateParser();

pattern = new ProductionPattern(P1, "P1");
alt = new ProductionPatternAlternative();
alt.AddProduction(P2, 1, 1);
alt.AddToken(T2, 1, 1);
AddAlternative(pattern, alt);
AddPattern(parser, pattern);

pattern = new ProductionPattern(P2, "P2");
alt = new ProductionPatternAlternative();
alt.AddToken(T1, 1, 1);
alt.AddToken(T2, 0, 1);
AddAlternative(pattern, alt);
AddPattern(parser, pattern);

PrepareParser(parser);
}

/**
* Creates a new parser.
*
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addAlternative(pattern, alt);
addPattern(parser, pattern);

failPrepareParser(parser);
// TODO: enable this test
// failPrepareParser(parser);
}

/**
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prepareParser(parser);
}

/**
* Tests a resolvable production conflict in the tail of a
* production alternative.
*/
public void testResolvableElementTailConflict() {
Parser parser = createParser();

pattern = new ProductionPattern(P1, "P1");
alt = new ProductionPatternAlternative();
alt.addProduction(P2, 1, 1);
alt.addToken(T2, 1, 1);
addAlternative(pattern, alt);
addPattern(parser, pattern);

pattern = new ProductionPattern(P2, "P2");
alt = new ProductionPatternAlternative();
alt.addToken(T1, 1, 1);
alt.addToken(T2, 0, 1);
addAlternative(pattern, alt);
addPattern(parser, pattern);

prepareParser(parser);
}

/**
* Creates a new parser.
*
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