Re: Languages with optional spaces

From	Martin Ward <martin@gkc.org.uk>
Newsgroups	comp.compilers
Subject	Re: Languages with optional spaces
Date	2020-02-25 17:00 +0000
Organization	Compilers Central
Message-ID	<20-02-020@comp.compilers> (permalink)
References	<20-02-015@comp.compilers> <20-02-017@comp.compilers>

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On 23/02/20 10:33, Ev. Drikos wrote:
> [You can try start states but in my experience if the tokenizing rules
> are very context sensitive, it's easier to give up and hand-code the
> lexer.  The lexical syntax of Basic isn't that big. -John]

The BASIC for the Compukit UK101 and Ohio Superboard stores
each line as a sequence of characters. As a line is entered
any keywords appearing anywhere on the line are replaced
by control characters. Keywords are not allowed anywhere
within a variable name. So any statement either starts
with a keyword (a control character), which determines
the statement type, or it is an assignment with the LET
keyword omitted.

Due to the small amount of memory available, variable names
are typically kept short and spaces are omitted. Short variable
names are less likely to include an embedded keyword.
Also, only the first two characters of a variable name are significant.
The program will also run faster with short variable names:
since the BASIC interpreter scans each line as it is interpreted.

More information and some sample BASIC software:

http://www.gkc.org.uk/martin/software/#UK101

A procedurally generated, open world, RTS (real time strategy) game
with destructable environments which runs in 8K of RAM:

http://www.gkc.org.uk/martin/software/startrek.html

--
			Martin

Dr Martin Ward | Email: martin@gkc.org.uk | http://www.gkc.org.uk
G.K.Chesterton site: http://www.gkc.org.uk/gkc | Erdos number: 4

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    Re: Languages with optional spaces "Ev. Drikos" <drikosev@gmail.com> - 2020-03-12 17:45 +0200
  Re: Languages with optional spaces "Ev. Drikos" <drikosev@gmail.com> - 2020-02-23 12:33 +0200
    Re: Languages with optional spaces Martin Ward <martin@gkc.org.uk> - 2020-02-25 17:00 +0000
      Re: Languages with optional spaces "Ev. Drikos" <drikosev@gmail.com> - 2020-02-28 13:34 +0200
    Re: Languages with optional spaces Christopher F Clark <christopher.f.clark@compiler-resources.com> - 2020-02-29 11:48 +0200
      Re: Languages with optional spaces "Ev. Drikos" <drikosev@gmail.com> - 2020-02-29 21:38 +0200
        Re: Languages with optional spaces Christopher F Clark <christopher.f.clark@compiler-resources.com> - 2020-03-01 10:07 +0200
        Re: Languages with optional spaces "Ev. Drikos" <drikosev@gmail.com> - 2020-03-01 19:41 +0200
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            Re: Languages with optional spaces "Ev. Drikos" <drikosev@gmail.com> - 2020-03-02 20:04 +0200
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