How would one go about adding (minor) syntactic sugars to Java?
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Suppose I want to add minor syntactic sugars to Java. Just little things like adding regex pattern literals, or perhaps base-2 literals, or multiline strings, etc. Nothing major grammatically (at least for now).
How would one go about doing this?
Do I need to extend the bytecode compiler? (Is that possible?)
Can I write Eclipse plugins to do simple source code transforms before feeding it to the standard Java compiler?
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