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Kim Nguyễn authored
requiring an abscence of whitespace between ``t'' and ``(''. Outside of regular expression contexts, ``t (t1, …, tn)'' is parsed with a higher precedence than & and \, to allow one to write ``t (Int) & Bool'' without extra parentheses (i.e. ``(t (Int)) & Bool''). Inside a regular expression, type instantiation and sequencing become ambiguous, and there is no way to distinguish syntactically: ``[ Int (Int, Int) ]'' from ``[ t (Int, Int) ]''. The former should resolve to a sequence while the latter only makes sense as an instantiation (if ``t'' is a parametric type). Both are treated as element sequencing and disambiguated during identifier resolution (more precisely during the "derecurse" phase, before typechecking). Note that due to the lower precedence of sequencing w.r.t to other regular expression constructs, a type ``[ t (Int)* ]'' will be parsed correctly, but yield an error message saying that t is not fully intantiated. One has to write ``[ (t (Int))* ]'' which is similar to function applications for expressions. Finally, we also re-order sequencing after typing to always group a potential type instantiation with its argument, i.e. we transform sequences such as ``[ t1 t2 t3 ... tn ]'' (which are parsed as ``[ (((t1 t2) t3) ... tn) ]'' because sequence concatenation is left-associative) into ``[ ... (ti tj) ... ]'' if ``ti'' is an identifier and ``tj'' is of the form ``(s1,...,sk)''. This is sound because concatenation of regular expression is associative (and the original sequence would fail, anyway).
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