capturing inferred blocks based on indentation

[rampall]

Is there a mechanism to capture inferred blocks say i{ from indentation during lexing similar to the way the inferred semicolon i;?

Guessing by the way catewaul parser works, it must be faster than other conventional parsers that double parse and push indent/outdent tokens, no?

[spencertipping]

Sadly there is no such mechanism right now. The caterwaul parser is so ad-hoc that it would probably be difficult to add support for it. However, it would probably not be difficult to write a simple parser in pegjs and have it generate custom trees. Then you could use the caterwaul macroexpander api with a custom syntax frontend. (This is what I'm planning on doing with the waul precompiler.) On Jan 11, 2012 6:04 AM, "rampall" < [email protected]> wrote:

Is there a mechanism to capture inferred blocks say i{ from indentation during lexing similar to the way the inferred semicolon i;?

Guessing by the way catewaul parser works, it must be faster than other conventional parsers that double parse and push indent/outdent tokens, no?

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[rampall]

I'll try that out and i'll keep an eye out for the waul precompiler updates.

I have to admit I am amazed (and intimidated at the same time) pouring through Caterwaul code and its acute case of over-documentation! Caterwaul is truly the beast - a magnificient one at that! Keep up the amazing work!