Anchor behavior change breaks RDoc

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Anchor behavior change breaks RDoc

kou opened this issue 5 years ago · 5 comments

#6 breaks RDoc. It uses \A. So we should keep the previous behavior by default.

Answer 1 · 2019-10-12T03:41:33.000Z

1.0.1 with #6 is yanked for now.

Answer 2 · 2019-10-12T18:10:21.000Z

Hi @kou! Could you provide a link to the parser that this breaks? Perhaps an option like relative_anchors: true to the constructor (or a method like use_relative_anchors!) could resolve the issue?

Answer 3 · 2019-10-12T21:09:11.000Z

I misunderstood.
It's not general Racc breakage. It just breaks RDoc.
https://github.com/ruby/rdoc/blob/master/lib/rdoc/rd/inline_parser.ry#L362

I'll add fixed_anchor option to the constructor.

Answer 4 · 2019-10-12T21:32:46.000Z

Okay! With that change, it would also be nice to add some way to feature-detect this, maybe by adding a #fixed_anchor? message to the scanner object, such that we could test #respond_to??

Answer 5 · 2019-10-12T22:21:57.000Z

You can use StringScanner.method_defined?(:fixed_anchor?).