Gavin King

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> Wild guess: is the parser a) not being asked to match a final eof, and b) in this particular scenario just being too lazy to bother to parse your...

@lucaswerkmeister are you sure you're forcing ANTLR to fully-read the token stream?

> Do I need to do anything special to close the token stream at the end or something? Hrmph, apparently not. It's strange, I seem to remember something about having...

I've pushed my initial implementation of this to the `7429` branch.

It seems to me that the natural syntax for this would be: ```ceylon if (is BaseMemberExpression bme = that.primary, text = identifierText(bme.identifier), (importMemberAliases[text] else text) in inlineAnnotations) { // ......

True. The `=` would be mistaken for an assignment operator.

OTOH, I'm pretty sure that assignments in `if`s are something we already strongly discourage...

hey, y'know what would be the coolest thing ever? A `renamed` annotation that: - tells the typechecker and model loaders to automatically generate an alias with the old name of...

@someth2say well I agree that `aliased` is kinda similar, but it's really just a hint, meant for people migrating from other languages. It's doesn't have the effect of changing the...

So what's the consensus here? To *not* make the change?