// This function supports all the special stuff like <int>

static bool jMatchStart(S pat, S s) {
  return jMatchStart(pat, s, null);
}

// matches are as you expect, plus an extra item for the rest string
static bool jMatchStart(S pat, S s, Matches matches) {
  if (s == null) false;
  ret jMatchStart(pat, javaTok(s), matches);
}

sbool jMatchStart(S pat, LS toks) {
  ret jMatchStart(pat, toks, null);
}

sbool jMatchStart(S pat, LS toks, Matches matches) {
  L<S> tokpat = jfind_preprocess(javaTok(pat));
  if (toks.size() < tokpat.size()) ret false;
  S[] m = match2x(tokpat, toks.subList(0, tokpat.size()));
  if (m == null) false;
  if (matches != null) {
    matches.m = new S[m.length+1];
    arraycopy(m, matches.m);
    matches.m[m.length] = join(toks.subList(tokpat.size(), toks.size())); // for Matches.rest()
  }
  true;
}

Began life as a copy of #1001793