Negative look-ahead

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In the production ArrayInitializer a WHILE loop is called:

WHILE( commaAndNoRBrace() )

"," VariableInitializer

END

where

commaAndNoRBrace ::= "," ( "}" EXIT )?

This means, the loop is executed as long, as a comma is following but no closing curly bracket follows the comma. If no comma follows, then commaAndNoRBrace cannot parse the current text. If a comma is following and a closing curly bracket '}' follows the comma, the look-ahead production commaAndNoRBrace also returns false. In this case this is forced by EXIT.

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