Felipe, The idea behind the more complex logic was to allow people to have Int/String/etc... class names, which if we make the types reserved keywords will no longer be possible and break existing code.
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Felipe Pena <felipe...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2010/5/22 Ilia Alshanetsky <i...@prohost.org> > > Felipe, >> >> Wouldn't the simpler change be to allow use of no spaces between scalar >> hint and a variable? Basically change + to a *? >> >> >> > But it is not just about 0 or more tab/spaces, there is also \r, \n... > which are inclued in the {WHITESPACE}. > And I consider simpler to match just the type name, thus not needing the > yyless() logic. Hence I also suggested in the patch to remove the _HINT > suffix. > > -- > Regards, > Felipe Pena >