[Bro-Dev] [JIRA] (BIT-67) Grammar ambiguity with "local" for introducing "when" variables

[Seth Hall (JIRA)]

    [ https://bro-tracker.atlassian.net/browse/BIT-67?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=15516#comment-15516 ] 

Seth Hall commented on BIT-67:
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This one seems to have slipped through the cracks.  Should it be merged?

> Grammar ambiguity with "local" for introducing "when" variables
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>                 Key: BIT-67
>                 URL: https://bro-tracker.atlassian.net/browse/BIT-67
>             Project: Bro Issue Tracker
>          Issue Type: Problem
>          Components: Bro
>            Reporter: Vern Paxson
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> Currently there are two ways in the grammar to parse "local", one as a variable declaration (including a type, initialization, and attributes), and the other as an expression (no type or attributes, just essentially an initialization).  I believe we added this second to support introducing variables to hold the delayed values resulting from "when" expressions.  However, this leads to parsing ambiguities and in particular the inability to associate attributes with "local" declarations.  (One such attribute we need is &raw_output.)  So we instead need to use a different keyword for "when" values.



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