Re: Ignore break line sometimes

From	Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Newsgroups	comp.compilers
Subject	Re: Ignore break line sometimes
Date	2012-02-12 10:48 -0500
Organization	Compilers Central
Message-ID	<12-02-016@comp.compilers> (permalink)
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> So, in the first line, the '\n' after 'then' isn't important, but in the
> second "foo();" could replace the need of the semicolon to conclude the
> statement, or still, in the 'end'.

A simple approach is to treat every newline as a semi-colon, and then to
adapt your grammar so as to accept (and ignore) extra semi-colons.
I.e. accept "if true then; foo(); ; end; ;"


        Stefan

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