Re: Sane syntax

From: Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz>
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 11:17:39 +1200

On 15/09/2012 5:30 a.m., Alex Rousskov wrote:
> On 09/14/2012 10:10 AM, Alex Rousskov wrote:
>> suffix-comment = optional whitespace followed by <#>,
>> followed by optional whitespace and end of line
> Err. This is wrong on several counts, sorry. Most importantly, the
> preprocessor would need to be aware of quoted strings to handle comments
> (and possibly new lines) correctly, but these low-level details are not
> really important for this discussion.
>
> Alex.
>

Each directives parser should be aware of how many tokens are expected
on each line and where suffix #comments are valid starting.
The word retrieval function can take a flag indicating a comment is
acceptible and drop it, returning EOL indicator instead if found.

Amos
Received on Fri Sep 14 2012 - 23:17:53 MDT

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