I've been playing around with parser-tools and am having difficulty
expressing the following language:
"remember <alias> is <email>"
"remember <fact>"
where <alias> is any string that does not contain the word 'is', <email> is
a well-formed email address and <fact> is any string that does not match
the previous constraints.
Here's (stripped down) version of what I have so far:
#lang racket
(require parser-tools/lex
parser-tools/yacc
(prefix-in : parser-tools/lex-sre))
(define-lex-abbrevs
(atext (:+ (:or alphabetic (:/ #\0 #\9) (char-set
"!#$%&'*+-/=?^_`{|}~"))))
(dot-atom (:: atext (:* #\. atext))))
(define-tokens toy-tokens (addr-spec alias fact))
(define-empty-tokens empty-toy-tokens (eof REMEMBER IS))
(define toy-lexer
(lexer-src-pos
; Consume whitespace
((:or #\tab #\space) (return-without-pos (toy-lexer input-port)))
; Email addresses
((:: dot-atom #\@ dot-atom) (token-addr-spec lexeme))
; Commands
("remember" 'REMEMBER)
("is" 'IS)
; ??? what to lex here ???
((complement (:: any-string "is" any-string)) (token-alias lexeme))
(any-string (token-fact lexeme))))
(define toy-parser
(parser
(tokens toy-tokens empty-toy-tokens)
(start start)
(end eof)
(error (lambda (a b c d e) (display (format "~a ~a ~a ~a ~a" a b c
(position-offset d)
(position-offset e)))))
(src-pos)
(grammar
(start (() #f)
((REMEMBER alias IS addr-spec) `(alias ,$2 ,$4))
((REMEMBER fact) `(fact ,$2))))))
; test
(define (test str)
(let ((p (open-input-string str)))
(port-count-lines! p)
(toy-parser (lambda () (toy-lexer p)))))
The problem I'm having is that the 'fact' lexer rule always matches without
giving a chance for the other rules to attempt a match. Perhaps it is my
ignorance with BNF. Can this language be expressed in this way? An
alternative I've thought of is to create a lexer rule to just match
"remember" then pass the port to another lexer that tries to look for "is"
or (eof) and munge the result into a token. Alternatively I could try to
regex the <alias>, <email> or <fact> clauses out and parse them separately,
but I'd like to compose this toy parser into a larger one if possible. Yet
I feel there is a simple technique here that I've missed in my ignorance.
Any ideas?
Many thanks, Simon.
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