On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Greg Ewing wrote:
Guido:
MAL originally asked for a parser that doesn't stop at the first error. That's a real weakness of the existing parser!!!
Is it really worth putting a lot of effort into this?
It might be if you were trying to develop an IDE that could syntactically analyse what the user was typing even if he/she had left a half finished expression further up in the buffer (I'd kind of assumed this was the goal). So you're not continuing after errors, exactly, more like unfinishednesses (or some better word...). I guess one approach to this would be to divided up the buffer according to indentation and then parse each block as delimited by the indentation individually. Two random points: 1) Triple-quoted strings are going to be a problem. 2) Has anyone gotten flex to tokenize Python? I was looking at the manual yesterday and it didn't look impossible, although a bit tricky. Cheers, M.