To be honest, I have little idea how indentation works for beancount, there seems to be little document talking about how the syntax works in details. But yeah, my code probably won't be able to handle a corner case like that. Thanks for letting me know, I will find a time to look into it and fix it.
On Sunday, April 10, 2022 at 5:41:23 AM UTC-7 [email protected] wrote: > On 10/04/2022 00:35, Fang-Pen Lin wrote: > > On Saturday, April 9, 2022 at 12:53:06 PM UTC-7 [email protected] wrote: > > > I really like Python's black formatter and how it works. With the > > > needs in mind, I built two projects: > > > > > > beancount-parser > > > <https://github.com/LaunchPlatform/beancount-parser > > <https://github.com/LaunchPlatform/beancount-parser>> - Standalone > > > Lark based Beancount syntax parser > > > > I don't know Lark much and I had just a quick look, but something seems > > odd: how do you handle indentation? I don't see anything about it in > > the > > grammar files. I realize that ignoring this aspect may be fine if the > > goal is to generate a syntax three to use in a formatting tool > > operating > > on known valid input files. Otherwise, this is not a validating parser. > > Maybe something to mention in the documentation. > > > > > > You are right, my parser tool won't validate the syntax. It's not meant > > to be a replacement of beancount core library, only to facilitate the > > formatter. And yeah, I will update the document to make it clear that > > there won't be validation for syntax. > > Without handling indentation, how do you distinguish between this: > > * Assets:Section:With:Funny:Name > > and this: > > 2022-04-10 * "Test" > * Assets:Posting:With:Flag > > or between this two metadata entries: > > 2022-04-10 * "Test" > transaction-metadata: 42 > Assets:Tests 1 TEST > posting:metadata: 25 > > ? > > I gave it a quick try via the online formatter and the posting flag is > interpreted as an org-mode heading and posting metadata entries are not > supported. > > It also seems that flag characters are limited to '*' and '!'. > > Cheers, > Dan > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/6e326b37-fc1c-4c26-a9bb-5d7cf26fc6ccn%40googlegroups.com.
