On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 6:01 PM, Jeffrey Kegler <
[email protected]> wrote:

>  I'll add "forgiving" to "lexeme default", as you suggest.  I'm not at
> all sure it's a good idea, but the UNIX/Perl tradition is that you give the
> user the tools and let them decide. -- jeffrey
>
Great, thanks.

P.S. I've to admit that I can't see the use case yet, but I (hopefully
correct) read above that "longest acceptable tokens" behavior, a motivation
of amon's IRIF, is enabled by marking all tokens forgiving and that will be
done safely at a low cost once "cheap forgiving" is implemented, hence the
suggestion.


>  On 01/08/2014 10:37 PM, Ruslan Shvedov wrote:
>
> Very useful feature, thanks a lot.
>
>  Can *forgiving* adverb be added to *lexeme default* so that an
> application be able to mark all lexemes as (un)forgiving and then set
> individual lexemes as forgiving or unforgiving as needed?
>
>  P.S. 2.079_007 <https://metacpan.org/release/JKEGL/Marpa-R2-2.079_007> built,
> installed, and tested just fine for me on cygwin and windows with 5.14.2
> and 5.18.1.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 9:25 AM, Jeffrey Kegler <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>>  I've uploaded a new developer's version, 
>> 2.079_007<https://metacpan.org/release/JKEGL/Marpa-R2-2.079_007>,
>> this time with some clearly visible added value: forgiving tokens.
>> Forgiving tokens are tokens that are declared to be exceptions from the
>> usually rigid longest-tokens-match discipline.  The usual (and traditional)
>> LTM discipline insists that the token is the longest match at any point.
>> If the LTM token is not acceptable to the grammar, then the parse fails.
>>
>> A forgiving token declares itself to be an exception to the LTM
>> discipline.  If a forgiving token is the longest match, but it is rejected
>> by G1, the rejection will be "forgiven" and the SLIF will look for shorter
>> tokens that it can accept.
>>
>> I've uploaded as Github gists two examples that previously were difficult
>> lexing situations, redone using forgiving tokens: one is Ruslan 
>> Zakirov's<https://gist.github.com/jeffreykegler/8312534>and the other is 
>> Peter
>> Stuifzand's <https://gist.github.com/jeffreykegler/8312524>.  I have not
>> documented the forgiving adverb yet, but the syntax is easy enough to
>> figure out from the two examples.
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