On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 1:25 AM, Spyros Hadjichristodoulou
<hlektrolo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Good evening everyone,
>
> I was just helped by the guys in #yi (on freenode) to make a working
> directory of yi so that I can play with it for the purposes of my diploma
> thesis, which is on incremental lexing and parsing.

Nice, please keep up updated on your results!

> All I can see in the /Yi/Lexer directory are alex files used for syntax
> highlighting. I couldn't find anywhere the parser files where the Haskell
> and Javascript grammars are described, so that incremental parsing of
> programs written in these languages is possible.

The syntaxes are in Yi/Syntax. For now there is only a coarse haskell grammar in
Yi/Syntax/Paren, and a coarse grammar intended for latex documents.
Most of the rest is at an experimental stage.

> I am interested in trying to make a simple mini-basic grammar work with yi
> and view its incremental parsing behavior, so that I can compare it with the
> behavior of another text editor I am working with.

Be sure to check the paper.

> Thanks for all the help,

Cheers,
JP.

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