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Re: Programming language and IDE design

From George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net>
Newsgroups comp.compilers
Subject Re: Programming language and IDE design
Date 2013-11-19 12:41 -0500
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Message-ID <13-11-021@comp.compilers> (permalink)
References <13-11-016@comp.compilers> <13-11-018@comp.compilers>

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Our esteemed moderator wrote:

>[Fortran through F77 potentially had to look arbitrarily far ahead to
>tell FORMAT statements from an assignment to an array called FORMAT.
>BTDT. But I would be surprised if any modern languages were that hard
>to lex. -John]

You're right - I forgot that the FORMAT *statement* also could be
confused with an assignment [I only ever used format strings with READ
and WRITE].  That potentially could require a large lookahead.

But it's still LL(k).  8-)

George
[Oh, sure, once you know whether a statement is an assignment or
something else, parsing is trivial. -John]

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Re: Programming language and IDE design Martin Ward <martin@gkc.org.uk> - 2013-11-16 15:55 +0000
  Re: Programming language and IDE design Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@aol.com> - 2013-11-16 19:48 +0100
  Re: Programming language and IDE design George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2013-11-18 19:02 -0500
    Re: Programming language and IDE design "Steven G. Kargl" <sgk@REMOVEtroutmask.apl.washington.edu> - 2013-11-19 15:36 +0000
    Re: Programming language and IDE design George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2013-11-19 12:41 -0500
      Re: Parsing Fortran, was Programming language and IDE design glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2013-11-19 20:18 +0000
        Re: Parsing Fortran, was Programming language and IDE design glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2013-11-21 21:22 +0000
    Re: Programming language and IDE design wclodius@earthlink.net (William Clodius) - 2013-11-22 18:27 -0700
    Re: Programming language and IDE design "robin" <robin51@dodo.com.au> - 2013-11-25 10:33 +1100
      Re: Programming language and IDE design Martin Ward <martin@gkc.org.uk> - 2013-12-03 15:15 +0000
        Re: Programming language and IDE design Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@aol.com> - 2013-12-05 03:35 +0100
    Re: Programming language and IDE design hu47121@usenet.kitty.sub.org (Hannah) - 2014-03-02 00:03 +0000
      Re: LL vs LR, was Programming language and IDE design Ivan Godard <ivan@ootbcomp.com> - 2014-03-01 20:31 -0800
        Re: LL vs LR, was Programming language and IDE design Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-03-02 18:41 +0000
      Re: Programming language and IDE design George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2014-03-02 12:21 -0500
  Re: Programming language and IDE design Jonathan Thornburg <jonathan@cobalt.astro.indiana.edu> - 2013-11-19 19:39 +0000

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