New light syntax

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3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
48/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
csharp
Domain
compilers

Research direction

Start by finding where the current light ELEMENT: block form is recognised — the grammar/parser classes in this C# library — and the tests that cover the light syntax, since the issue names neither. Reading those will show whether the change belongs in the tokenizer, the block parser, or both, and how optional commas interact with the existing separator rules. Done means both the colon form and the parenthesised form parse, commas are accepted but no longer required, and the existing syntax tests still pass alongside new ones for the parenthesis variant. The open question of whether to keep the old form is worth settling with a maintainer before writing code.

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What we have now

The light syntax is currently

ELEMENT:
   element1,
   element2,
   ...,
   elementN;

What i propose

Add a parenthesis syntax to conform more to the notion of a block:

ELEMENT (
   element1
   element2
   ...
   elementN
)

Also make it so that comas , are not mandatory anymore.

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