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Xiaohan Zhang
preprocessor in version 1.1
May 14th, 2009, 6:01pm  
Why does the preprocessor only recognize java 1.1? it's over a decade old, and since that time there are a lot of new features that would be beneficial to processing
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PhiLho 
Re: preprocessor in version 1.1
Reply #1 - May 15th, 2009, 1:45am  
Strictly speaking, that's Java 1.3, although I don't know if language syntax evolved between 1.1 and 1.4.

The reason is simple: the Antlr grammars between 1.3 and 1.5 are very different, so it is quite a hard job to re-inject the changes needed by Processing in the new grammar.
Although I see in the source tree a java.g.java15 file which is different from the one I have and more derivative of the older one, so maybe this work is already in progress.

Anyway, it is a question of time and priorities.
Note that if you include .java files in your sketch, they can follow 1.5 syntax.
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Xiaohan Zhang
Re: preprocessor in version 1.1
Reply #2 - May 16th, 2009, 10:30am  
ok, makes sense. and thanks! that helps me out a lot
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