Nico Aragón wrote:
El Sábado, 4 de Junio de 2005 11:00, Jamie McCracken escribió:
I had thought of that but thats problematic for debugging. IE the
compiler returns line numbers for errors and they will not match if I
use an external preprocessor.
See the recent thread "How to manually control debug information" in this
list. I asked the very same thing.
I admit I hadn't read it before but I already knew an external
preprocessor was more a last resort cause of the hacky nature of
correlating virtual line numbers to physical line numers.
For replacing Begin..End blocks with indents in my new dialect I planned
to use the compiler's internal preprocessor in the compiler to put back
the begin/end blocks without affecting the line numbers. I can do
likewise for syntactic sugar.
If you or anybody else has advise on how best to implement it then
please let me know - I apreciate anything that will help me here.
I've been playing with the same concept for years, so I think I do have some
advice :-) The preprocessor is the right step to start
Which the compiler's internal preprocessor or your external preprocessor?
I prefer the internal one cause it means no external dependencies but
then again if its too dificult to use...
. I have a working
scanner and the next tasks (conditional "compilation" and expressions)
planned in detail. If you're interested, we could share the work.
If I get bogged down with the compiler internals then yes I'll be happy
to collaborate then. As I said IMO the external stuff is a last resort
to me not a first but thanks anyway for the offer - I will be in touch
if I need an external one.
jamie.
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