VariableDeclarator character range does not match range of children

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VariableDeclarator character range does not match range of children #4520

Open kjy5 opened 3 months ago

kjy5 commented 3 months ago

When parsing the line

private int one = 1;

I get

VariableDeclarator [29, 36]
- PrimitiveType: int [25,28]
- SimpleName: one [29,32]
- IntegerLiteralExpr: 1 [35,36]

Why does VariableDeclarator start at 29 if it's child, PrimitiveType starts at 25? Is this expected behavior?

Thank you!

jlerbsc commented 3 months ago

It's hard to answer for the project designers, but I think it's because the variable declaration is a special expression. For example, you could write "int one = 1, two = 2;". In this case you have 2 variable declarations "one = 1", "two = 2" each with the type of the variable among its attributes.