At 11:58 AM 12/17/00 +0000, David Grove wrote:
>As the maker of such an editor, I wouldn't mind getting any help from perl
>that can be gotten in this area. It's not really the rules that are
>gotchas, but the exceptions to the rules. The elements that you mentioned
>(strings and regexen) are extremely difficult to find, especially in odd
>contexts like grep {/[^.]/} where there's no leading =~ or !~ and in s///
>where there's not a single ending but two, each with its own rules.
>
>I'm not sure this is a parser issue, at least not when it comes to the
>internal parsing of Perl for perl's sake.
Actually, it is. Making a syntax highlighting editor would be a lot easier
if it hands:
$foo = $bar + 12;
and gets back:
$foo<scalar> =<assign> $bar<scalar> +<addition>
12<constant>;<end-of-statement>
or something like it.
That's sort of what the parser will get you.
Dan
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