On Nov 14, 2005, at 0:02, Jonathan Worthington wrote:
* I'm thinking of a PIR syntax along the lines of this:-
The discussion goes forth and back, like all other discussion we
already had WRT syntax, months and years ago.
I'd much more prefer that a compiler (amber anyone ;) just emits PIR
with debug syntax so that folks get a feeling how it looks like. E.g.
#_dbg file "foo" # file is a bit special but general syntax is:
#_dbg keyword rest # (\w+)\s+(.*)
#_dbg 1 # bare number defaults to line for brevity
#_dbg line 1 # same
#_dbg 1.4-8 # line.column-range
'file' and 'line' and maybe 'column' are special insofar that we might
need/invent a compact storage format for it (this is an optimization -
yes), that is we might have an 'optimized' file/line/column format and
a genernal format with 'key' => stuff mappings.
Future improvements:
#_dbg begin_segment foo # create new segment type
#_dbg stuff bar # goes into segment foo
...
#_dbg end_segment # done with it
Jonathan
leo
