On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 05:57:07PM +1000, Илья wrote:
> Hi there,
> I have tried to fix our HTML::Template in November which is blocked by
> Rakudo segaful.
> I was trying to create simple example, but can`t reproduce it. By the
> way now I have short
> example(much shorter then when I start), and I have questions about it:
>
> grammar G {
> token TOP { ^ <foo>+ $ };
> token foo { ':' <bar>? };
> token bar { \w };
> };
>
> ":a:b" ~~ G::TOP;
>
> say ~$/<foo><bar>; #:a
>
> # why ':a'? why not just 'a'?
$/<foo> is an array of Match objects, and Parrot currently
doesn't distinguish between array indexes and hash indexes --
it treats them both the same.
Thus $/<foo><bar> is ending up acting the same as $/<foo>['bar'],
and since 'bar' stringifies to zero that's the same as $/<foo>[0],
which includes the colon.
The correct way to get just the <bar> component would be
$/<foo>[0]<bar>[0]
since both <foo> and <bar> are quantified subrules in the grammar.
Pm
