Re: Recent news about PGE

2005-11-06 Thread Autrijus Tang
On 11/6/05, Patrick R. Michaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First, for null input, PGE (and p6rules) will likely parse this > by returning a Match object indicating "false", and attempting > to compile that object will probably return a null subroutine. Yes, that sounds sane. > The other case is

Re: Recent news about PGE

2005-11-06 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 11:45:02PM +0100, Autrijus Tang wrote: > I noticed that zero-length input is now rejected by ; I tried > to fix it, but could not determine where the fix should go. A trace is > listed below: > > compilers/pge$ echo 'rule ' | parrot demo.pir > Missing term at offset 0

Re: Recent news about PGE

2005-11-06 Thread Autrijus Tang
On 11/4/05, Patrick R. Michaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As a quick example, one can now use the subrule > to parse a perl 6 rule expression, and the Match object > that is returned contains the parse tree. Other examples > and demonstrations or parsing are in the examples/pge/ > directory. p

Recent news about PGE

2005-11-04 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
We're long overdue for a status update on the grammar engine (aka PGE), so here's a quick summary of recent changes and improvements. My thanks go out to many people on irc #parrot who have been helping with testing and feature implementations, and especially particle for the incredible tests he's