From 19721fb94e667c6279fee44574ddda7daae9490f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Intege-rs <me@jessiep.me>
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2025 19:54:39 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] ignore groups and commas

---
 sub/_macros/src/lib.rs      |  6 +++++-
 sub/_macros/src/patterns.rs | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
 2 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sub/_macros/src/lib.rs b/sub/_macros/src/lib.rs
index 253dbe2..bebb55a 100644
--- a/sub/_macros/src/lib.rs
+++ b/sub/_macros/src/lib.rs
@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@ pub fn derive_from_repr(input: proc_macro::TokenStream) -> proc_macro::TokenStre
 
 
 
-
+#[proc_macro]
+pub fn debug(input: proc_macro::TokenStream) -> proc_macro::TokenStream {
+    let input = input.into_iter().collect::<Vec<_>>();
+    format!("r#\"{input:#?}\"#").parse().unwrap()
+}
 
 
diff --git a/sub/_macros/src/patterns.rs b/sub/_macros/src/patterns.rs
index 59bbbad..34c3f3c 100644
--- a/sub/_macros/src/patterns.rs
+++ b/sub/_macros/src/patterns.rs
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 use core::{cmp, fmt, mem, str};
-use proc_macro::{Literal, TokenStream, TokenTree};
+use proc_macro::{Delimiter, Literal, TokenStream, TokenTree};
 
 
 mod atoms {
@@ -16,12 +16,8 @@ mod parser {
 /// const PATTERN: &[pelite::pattern::Atom] = pattern!("pattern string");
 /// ```
 pub fn proc_pattern(input: TokenStream) -> TokenStream {
-    let input = input.into_iter().collect::<Vec<_>>();
-
-    let string = match &input[..] {
-        [TokenTree::Literal(lit)] => parse_str_literal(&lit),
-        _e => panic!("expected a single string literal to parse, got: {_e:?}"),
-    };
+    let mut string = String::new();
+    parse_tokens(input, &mut string);
 
     let pattern = match parser::parse(&string) {
         Ok(pattern) => pattern,
@@ -31,10 +27,34 @@ pub fn proc_pattern(input: TokenStream) -> TokenStream {
     format!("{{ use x::xpat::Atom::*; &{:?} as x::Pattern }}", pattern).parse().unwrap()
 }
 
-fn parse_str_literal(input: &Literal) -> String {
+
+pub fn parse_tokens(input: TokenStream, out: &mut String) {
+    let input = input.into_iter().collect::<Vec<_>>();
+    for token in input {
+        match token {
+            TokenTree::Group(g) if g.delimiter() == Delimiter::None => {
+                parse_tokens(g.stream(), out);
+            }
+
+            TokenTree::Punct(p) if p.as_char() == ',' => {}
+
+            TokenTree::Literal(lit) => {
+                parse_str_literal(&lit, out);
+            }
+
+            TokenTree::Group(g) => { panic!("Unexpected Delimiter group") }
+            TokenTree::Ident(_) => { panic!("Unexpected identifier") }
+            TokenTree::Punct(p) => { panic!("Unexpected punctuation") }
+
+        }
+
+    }
+}
+
+
+fn parse_str_literal(input: &Literal, out: &mut String) {
     let input = input.to_string();
     let mut chars = input.chars();
-    let mut string = String::new();
     if chars.next() != Some('"') {
         panic!("expected string literal starting with a `\"` and no extraneous whitespace");
     }
@@ -57,7 +77,6 @@ fn parse_str_literal(input: &Literal) -> String {
             Some(chr) => chr,
             None => panic!("unexpected end of string literal, missing `\"` terminator?"),
         };
-        string.push(chr);
+        out.push(chr);
     }
-    string
 }