I’ve been working on a new proposed update to the Turbo parser. Here is what it can do: Warn of duplicated parameters/locals, locals overwriting parameters, names used again in nested FOR/REPeat loops; locals not used - or used but not assigned. If MANIFEST or IMPLICIT statements are made too late, then Turbo will now be able to give the line number where they need to be placed. Any missing REFERENCE statements are now warned of with a by-ref/by-value conflict check. REMarks can now be attached to the top of IF/SELect/FOR/REPeat structures. Besides the above additions, some existing parts of the code have been improved upon. Warnings of "LOCALs must follow DEFinitions." and "Meaningless command ignored." have not been working. This is now fixed. Some bugs are extremely minor - On Turbo's front panel, it is possible to overflow the report file window. This is now fixed. May I ask everyone please, if you are aware of any problems in using Turbo, can you please inform me. I’m quite familiar with Turbo's code, having studied this for some while, so should be able to investigate.
The parser will increase in size by 11k to 91k. I presume this will be acceptable. I need to check my code first, before submitting this to George. Michael _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List
