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Bradley M . Kuhn <bkuhn@ebb.org> writes: >Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> wrote: > >> Something I though of: >> If you're trying to write an interactive perl inputer - either a perl shell >> or just the command prompt on the debugger it would be useful if you >> could tell the parser that the chunk of source you're giving it may be >> incomplete. > >I really like this idea, although I am unsure of how we might implement it. >I don't recall any of the compiler texts I have read over the years talking >about formal methods for writing such a "partial programs are acceptable" >parser. > > >Lisp-like languages handle this, but s-expressions are so trivial to parse >that it's no help to simply "follow" their example. So does Tcl - but it is also trivial to "parse" - all its complexity is in the semantics of interpolation. -- Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@tiuk.ti.com> Via, but not speaking for: Texas Instruments Ltd.Thread Previous | Thread Next