On 06/19/2012 02:47 AM, Chris Cain wrote:
On Monday, 18 June 2012 at 18:05:59 UTC, Daniel wrote:
Same here, I wish there were a standardized pre-lexed-token "binary"
file-format, would benefit all text editors also, as they need to lex
it anyway to perform color syntax highlighting.
If I were to make my own language, I'd forego a human-readable format
and just have the "language" be defined as a big machine-readable AST.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp ?
You'd have to have an IDE, but it could display the code in just about
any way the person wants (syntax, style, etc).
This could be done even if the language's source code storage format is
human-readable.
Syntax highlighting would be instantaneous and there would be fewer
errors made by programmers (maybe ...). Plus it'd be unbelievably easy
to implement things like auto-completion.
Parsing is not a huge issue. Depending on how powerful the language is,
auto-completion may depend on full code analysis.
