Hello Keith,
On 07/09/2012 03:05 AM, Keith Amidon wrote:
> {-- Sun, 08 Jul 2012 20:01:02 +0200: Erich<ew.fo...@nassur.net> wrote: --}
>
> Erich> More info below ...
> >> I found a minor thing that puzzles me:
> >> |C| 11|\ PORTD 7 portpin: PD.7 ( define portD pin #7)
> >> |E| 12|\ PD.7 high ( turn portD pin #7 on, i.e. set it high-level)
> >> |E=Illegal nested comment
> >> make: *** [marker] Error 1
>
> Erich> This can be worked around by adding a space before the
> Erich> closing ')'.
> Erich> ...
> Erich> |C| 10|\ Use it this way:
> Erich> |C| 11|\ PORTD 7 portpin: PD.7 ( define portD pin #7 )
> Erich> |C| 12|\ PD.7 high ( turn portD pin #7 on, i.e. set
> it high-level )
>
> Ah, yes, I forgot I didn't take care of that. You may notice that the
> line starts with |C|. To reduce the amount of data sent to the
> microcontroller the script detects lines that are all comments or
> whitespace and doesn't send them.
>
> When I originally wrote this support I was under the mistaken impression
> that comments delimited by parenthesis had the following
> characteristics:
>
> 1: the start parenthesis had to be surrounded by whitespace (true I
> believe)
True.
> 2: the end parenthesis had to be surrounded by whitespace (false I
> believe)
Looking at the code: XT_CSCAN looks for character 'c' (from
stack) in the input stream. " ( " is in lparenthesis.asm and
looks for the next closing paren ')'.
so: False.
> 3: these comments could span multiple lines, similar to the way that
> C "/* */" comments can (also false I believe)
False. cscan will look in the current input buffer. gforth barks
as well when trying to break comment over more lines.
>
> I forgot to go clean this up when I discovered the problem. I'll add
> that to my list of things to try to get to when I get a chance to work
> on the script. Alas, it doesn't look like that is going to happen this
> weekend as I had hoped after all.
No sweat! Folks start using your tool in unexpected ways, that's
all :-)
Cheers,
Erich
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