> Hmm. I was not sure if we'd really need to get down to that, as most
> of the grammar keywords have the same parsed meaning, but there's a
> good point with LAST for example that uses a negative value for
> howMany. If we silence the number, LAST would map with everything
> else that has FETCH_ABSOLUTE. That would be confusing.
yes, that is another good case. I think distinguishing between the
various keywords makes the most sense.
> > I considered introducing an enum for these explicit direction values, but
> > didn’t find it particularly useful. If you think it would be beneficial,
> > I can define an enum in parsenodes.h
>
> An enum would shine here IMO, because the value could be
> self-documented and one would not need to guess what each integer
> value means. That could be something like a direction_keyword, filled
> with FETCH_KEYWORD_LAST, FETCH_KEYWORD_BACKWARD, etc.
Done in v4.
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Sami