LanguageFeatures/Constructor-tear-offs/ambiguities_A07_t01.dart

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/// @assertion This new syntax also introduces new ambiguities in the grammar, 
/// similar to the one we introduced with generic functions. Examples include:
/// 
/// f(a<b,c>(d)); // Existing ambiguity, resolved to a generic method call.
/// f(x.a<b,c>[d]); // f((x.a<b, c>)[d]) or f((x.a < b), (c > [d]))
/// f(x.a<b,c>-d);  // f((x.a<b, c>)-d) or f((x.a < b), (c > -d]))
/// The x.a<b,c> can be an explicitly instantiated generic function tear-off or 
/// an explicitly instantiated type literal named using a prefix, which is new. 
/// While neither type objects nor functions declare operator- or operator[], 
/// such could be added using extension methods.
/// 
/// We will disambiguate such situations heuristically based on the token 
/// following the > that matches the < we are ambiguous about. In the existing 
/// ambiguity we treat ( as a sign that the < starts a generic invocation. We 
/// extend the number of tokens which, when following a potential type argument 
/// list, makes us choose to parse the previous tokens as that type argument 
/// list.
/// 
/// There is a number of tokens which very consistently end an expression, and 
/// we include all those:
/// 
/// ), }, ], ;, :, ,
/// 
/// Then we include tokens which we predict will continue a generic instantiation:
/// 
/// ( . == !=
/// 
/// The first six are tokens which cannot possibly start an expression, and 
/// therefore cannot occur after a greater-than infix operator. The last four 
/// tokens can continue an expression, and of those only ( can also start an 
/// expression, and we already decided how to disambiguate that).
/// 
/// There are many other tokens which currently cannot continue an expression 
/// (and therefore cannot validly follow a type argument list) or which cannot 
/// start an expression (and therefore cannot validly follow a greater-than 
/// operator), but in the service of keeping our future options open, we choose 
/// a design that does not rely on those restrictions. For example we omit most 
/// infix operators from being "continuation tokens", even though they currently 
/// cannot start a new expression, and therefore cannot follow a > infix 
/// operator. This leaves us open to allowing some of those operators as prefix 
/// operators in the future, like we currently allow the - operator.
///
/// @description Checks disambiguate by ',' token. Test that a<b, c>, is
/// parsed as (a<b, c>),
/// @author sgrekhov@unipro.ru

void f(bool x, [y, z]) {}

main() {
  int a = 1;
  int b = 2;
  int c = 3;
  int d = 4;
  f(a<b,
//  ^^^^
// [analyzer] unspecified
// [cfe] unspecified
    c>, d);
//  ^^^
// [analyzer] unspecified
// [cfe] unspecified
}