On Monday, 23 January 2017 at 01:46:58 UTC, FatalCatharsis wrote:
On Monday, 23 January 2017 at 00:46:30 UTC, Profile Anaysis
wrote:
The real issue is ambiguity. Any time you have a cycle you
must be able to get out of it and so your rules must be
organized so that one always checks to see if
On Monday, 23 January 2017 at 00:03:44 UTC, FatalCatharsis wrote:
On Sunday, 22 January 2017 at 23:20:27 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
One way to do this is not to do anything special for q{. [...]
This is for tooling, but I still want it to be accurate. Are
you suggesting I could move handling
On Monday, 23 January 2017 at 01:40:28 UTC, Chris Wright wrote:
On Mon, 23 Jan 2017 00:46:30 +, Profile Anaysis wrote:
But this is ok because parsers are recursive in nature, so you
just have to have your rule be able to terminate in a logical
way.
Except it's part of the lexer, and most
On Monday, 23 January 2017 at 00:46:30 UTC, Profile Anaysis wrote:
The real issue is ambiguity. Any time you have a cycle you must
be able to get out of it and so your rules must be organized so
that one always checks to see if termination has occurred
before checking for nesting. If you
On Mon, 23 Jan 2017 00:46:30 +, Profile Anaysis wrote:
> But this is ok because parsers are recursive in nature, so you just have
> to have your rule be able to terminate in a logical way.
Except it's part of the lexer, and most people (such as those creating the
JFlex lexer generator)
On Sunday, 22 January 2017 at 22:11:08 UTC, FatalCatharsis wrote:
I'm writing a flex lexer for D and I've hit a roadblock. It is
almost working EXCEPT for one specific production.
StringLiteral is cyclic and I don't know how to approach it. It
is cyclic because:
Token -> StringLiteral
On Sunday, 22 January 2017 at 23:20:27 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
One way to do this is not to do anything special for q{. Just
add a token for q{ and continue normal lexing. The token string
content must be valid tokens so it should work.
In facts it depends on what the scanner just be used
On Sunday, 22 January 2017 at 22:11:08 UTC, FatalCatharsis wrote:
I'm writing a flex lexer for D and I've hit a roadblock. It is
almost working EXCEPT for one specific production.
StringLiteral is cyclic and I don't know how to approach it. It
is cyclic because:
Token -> StringLiteral
I'm writing a flex lexer for D and I've hit a roadblock. It is
almost working EXCEPT for one specific production.
StringLiteral is cyclic and I don't know how to approach it. It
is cyclic because:
Token -> StringLiteral -> TokenString -> Token
To break the cycle, I was thinking I could
