Unless you're dealing with 1) binary data or 2) structured data (ie. XML)
where a path is more appropriate, then I think line / column is the way to
go.
Now, is this a clojure parser? Or a clojure parser generator library that
consumes a BNF-like file that defines another lang? As far as I can tell,
clojure doesn't have one. I have a recent project where clojure is pointing
to a SableCC BNF generated Lexer and Parser file. That project might give
you some ideas.
HTH
Tim
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 8:29 PM, joshua-choi <rbysam...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm making a parsing library that can keep track of its location in a
> stream of tokens, and the tokens can be of any type—character, map,
> and so forth. I need advice on this question:
>
> Can you think of an instance where the location would not be a line
> number and column number, such as {:line 3, :column 25}?
>
> I'm deciding if I should bother with the trouble of making the
> location data structure independent and pluggable with my parser, or
> if I should make it always a line-column pair, which would make the
> API much simpler.
>
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