On Sep 18, 9:04 am, Nick Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > True. I've been looking forward to somebody rewriting the preparse > > (...) > > function for a long time. Much to my surprise nobody has. I don't > > think > > anybody has even tried, though people have suggested they would try > > on a few occasions. > > I did! In the end, I never was able to parse K.<x> = ... to my > satisfaction, so I abandoned it.
Could you post a short summary about what you did (what library / approach used, considered, etc.), and why you weren't happy with it, etc.,? It would be really helpful to whoever actually tries to do something with: http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/689 Thanks! > I also used a parser combinator library that was pretty crufty and > probably wasn't suitable for SAGE, and I wasn't in the mood to write > my own combinator library. What does "parser combinator library" mean? It sounds like Klingon to me. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---