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#74963
Ambiguous treesit named and anonymous nodes in ruby-ts-mode
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>> This mismatched "string" in TypeScript is even more
>> unexpected than "unless" in Ruby.
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>> So probably we need a way to mark all used nodes as named
>> to avoid such unexpected matches. Maybe matching anonymous nodes
>> should be opt-in, and by default match only named nodes.
>
> IMHO this is just an unfortunate bug that needs to be fixed. I agree that
> this type of bug are hard to avoid, which is a bad thing, but that doesn’t
> mean we should try to alleviate it at any cost. Making predicates named by
> default just adds complexity and inflexibility for not much benefit.
Not sure if a possible flexibility is better than unintended matches.
When the authors of a ts-mode carefully selected a list of named nodes to match,
why treesit should try to match some random and unintended anonymous nodes?
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