commit b8906889861d0efaf5682a7d26417111eaba3480
author Robert Griesemer <gri@golang.org> Wed Jan 17 21:42:51 2018 -0800
committer Robert Griesemer <gri@golang.org> Mon Feb 12 22:57:57 2018 +0000
tree 7d7870c860fd8f586f958259cc091ad662a71055
parent 670494827c42d4ac64a52dfa909cf6048308e133

cmd/compile/internal/syntax: implement comment reporting in scanner

R=go1.11

In order to collect comments in the AST and for error testing purposes,
the scanner needs to not only recognize and skip comments, but also be
able to report them if so desired. This change adds a mode flag to the
scanner's init function which controls the scanner behavior around
comments.

In the common case where comments are not needed, there must be no
significant overhead. Thus, comments are reported via a handler upcall
rather than being returned as a _Comment token (which the parser would
have to filter out with every scanner.next() call).

Because the handlers for error messages, directives, and comments all
look the same (they take a position and text), and because directives
look like comments, and errors never start with a '/', this change
simplifies the scanner's init call to only take one (error) handler
instead of 2 or 3 different handlers with identical signature. It is
trivial in the handler to determine if we have an error, directive,
or general comment.

Finally, because directives are comments, when reporting directives
the full comment text is returned now rather than just the directive
text. This simplifies the implementation and makes the scanner API
more regular. Furthermore, it provides important information about
the comment style used by a directive, which may matter eventually
when we fully implement /*line file:line:col*/ directives.

Change-Id: I2adbfcebecd615e4237ed3a832b6ceb9518bf09c
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/88215
Reviewed-by: Matthew Dempsky <mdempsky@google.com>