On Thu, 2 Feb 2023 20:11:03 GMT, Pavel Rappo <pra...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> `newline` is a flag with a name that is less than ideal. It indicates >> whether we are at the beginning of a line, part from whitespace. It is used >> to determine whether an `@` character should be treated as introducing a >> block tag. As soon as a non-white character is encountered, it is >> unconditionally set to `false`, and remains that way until the next newline >> is encountered. > > What I mean is this: why would anyone read a character using `nextChar()`, > which sets the flag if encounters a newline, and then immediately clear the > flag? Aha, sorry, I misunderstood your comment. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/12372
