Martin Rubey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Stephen Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Hmm. How does it do with Martin's Guess package? > > > > I have not tested it. I would be surprised if it worked. The parser > > handles > > a good chuck of the spad grammar but it is known to be deficient in a few > > areas, and even intentionally incompatible in others. Perhaps I will use > > the > > guess package as `representative' input during the next iteration of > > improvements. > > I would urge you, not to. I believe I use some hacks I'd rather have > non-working. (I use them only because the proper way is not > supported by SPAD)
Ok. Thanks for the heads up. > Rather, PLEASE try to follow the Aldor User Guide. Since Christian > Aistleitner > wrote a parser for Aldor some time ago (in Aldor, sources being available from > himself, I believe), maybe you would like to get into contact with him. Grammatically, Spad is fairly similar to Aldor, as you know. I am actively thinking about Aldor features that I would like to integrate with the compiler down the road. However, I am not commiting to cloning Aldor, as I feel there are shortcomings/difficulties. The same is true, or course, with Spad. I would be happy to dicuss some of my plans for enriching the compiler with features familiar to Aldor if interested. > Trying to model a parser after the current algebra is, in my opinion, a wast > of > time. I agree. I am not attempting a replacement. I dont care about being able to parse the whole algebra. I would certainly like to encourage anyone to contribute their thoughts on what an `ideal' language should be. > All the best and thanks for working on this, > > Martin Thanks, Steve _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
