Also sprach Mike Porter:
} On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Vardhan Varma wrote:
}
} >
} > On subject of parsing, and genrating the text file:-
} > 1. parsing and generating is easy, if syntax is regular-expression rather
} > than CFG.
}
} What is CFG?
}
Context Free Grammar.
} > 2. significance of white space - [ \t]
} > just visually appeal
}
} Mostly. Some people do feel, myself included, that newline can
} serve as a statement seperator. So ';' and '\n' are equivalent,
} with an ending '\' serving to concatentate two lines.
}
Sure...They have equivalent uses.
} > 3. significance of new lines - [\n]
} > putting all related info on a single line frees parser of a
} > 'state machine' . This may ease error recovery slightly
}
} Why? At best, it makes it easier to say 'error on line n', but
} you really should point to the exact character in error.
}
Sometimes it's hard to point to exact character in error.
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