On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Dylan Ede <[email protected]> wrote:

> Just to clarify, the problem is that marpa_v_arg_0 returns -1, when the
> documentation explicitly specifies that it should never do so.
>
Well, yes, I've found backlog on the IRC where the author say so —
http://irclog.perlgeek.de/marpa/2014-05-04 — perhaps you'll find that
useful.



>
> On Monday, 15 September 2014 12:30:28 UTC+1, Dylan Ede wrote:
>>
>> I have just bumped into a situation where the valuator always produces a
>> rule step that has arguments beginning from -1 for a particular rule. The
>> rule is a sequence of 5 symbols, and is also the start rule. The first two
>> are the same terminal symbol. marpa_v_arg_0 gives -1. marpa_v_arg_n gives
>> 3. When this rule step is reached, there are only 4 items on the stack,
>> corresponding to the last 4 symbols in the rule. According to the libmarpa
>> documentation, marpa_v_arg_0 never fails, and returns a valid stack
>> position. -1 is not a valid stack position, so what's gone wrong? This
>> problem only occurs when the first two symbols are a particular symbol. Is
>> there something I must have done wrong with this symbol?
>>
>> Other than this problem, I must say that libmarpa is a quite brilliant
>> library for parsing.
>>
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