Re: patch: C-style string lexing
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- Subject: Re: patch: C-style string lexing
- From: Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@...>
- Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 19:23:03 -0200
> Eric, your patch could likely be salvaged if it were to concatenate adjacent
> strings only when they are preceded by an open parenthesis:
Yes, but this is not as general as possible, because it'd not work for
things like this:
a(1,"x" "y",2)
You could think that it'd be ok to concatenate adjacent that occur
inside a parenthesis, but that does not work in this case:
a(1,f"x" "y")
> I think that would be do-able entirely in the lexer
So, no, I don't think it's possible. The only way out seems to me to add
a lex-time string concatenation operator, say &:
a(1,f"x" & "y")
But I find & heavy and ugly. I find· (· in HTML) much nicer,
but it is harder to type.
--lhf