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Grammar definition API that doesn't depend on Function.name or Function.toString?

See original GitHub issue

Webpack 2 does “tree shaking” which mangles variable and function names, resulting in errors like Terminal Token name: __WEBPACK_IMPORTED_MODULE_3__tokens__ not found.

I suspect this sort of issue will become more common. It would be nice if Chevrotain didn’t rely on the source being unmangled.

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Created 7 years ago
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Comments:10 (9 by maintainers)

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bd82commented, Jan 29, 2019

Let me know if any help is needed or any documentation is missing on how to contribute 😄

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bd82commented, Aug 25, 2019

Chevrotain no longer relies on Function.prototype.toString

https://sap.github.io/chevrotain/docs/changes/CHANGELOG.html#_6-0-0-8-20-2019

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