Recover gracefully from struct
parse errors
#75513
Merged
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Currently the parser tries to recover from finding a keyword where a field name was expected, but this causes extra knock down parse errors that are completely irrelevant. Instead, bail out early in the parsing of the field and consume the remaining tokens in the block. This can reduce output significantly.
Improvements based on the narrative in https://fasterthanli.me/articles/i-am-a-java-csharp-c-or-cplusplus-dev-time-to-do-some-rust