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Location tracking.

Open rkaminsk opened this issue 1 year ago • 0 comments

Lexy already offers lexy::dsl::position to obtain the current input position. It would be nice to also have a rule to obtain where a rule starts and ends.

namespace lexy::dsl
{
    constexpr rule auto location(rule auto rule);
    constexpr branch-rule auto location(branch-rule auto rule);
}

The semantic value of location should be a pair of positions. The first should be the iterator before the rule as would also be obtained with lexy::dsl::position and the second the position right after the rule.

Currently, it is a bit complicated to obtain something like this. Especially with automatic white space skipping.

rkaminsk avatar Jul 30 '24 10:07 rkaminsk