Re: Help with tweaking Parse::RecDescent grammar

You could disambiguate labels with a marker character. Just like in the P::RD code itself, L1: ADD RMOVE 1

Thus labels are terminated with a special character and your grammar never gets confused... label_name: /[a-z]\w*:/i

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Re: Help with tweaking Parse::RecDescent grammar by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Feb 11, 2003 at 13:48 UTC
That doesn't solve his problem though. The problem isn't that `IF` matches a label, the problem is that the parser is trying to match `IF` to be a label. That means the parser has already rejected the line to be of the form `opcode operand(s)`. Hence, the parsing of the `IF` statement failed. Where does it fail? Easy, `var_value` returns the value from a code block. It's looking up the value of `rmove`, but that variable wasn't set. Instead, the variable `RMOVE` was set. The problem here is that the parser is already doing the calculations, and causing the parse the language differently on the outcome of those calculations. Icky. Anything more complicated that a calculater should probably have separate compile and runtime phases. Abigail	[reply] [d/l] [select]
(jeffa) 2Re: Help with tweaking Parse::RecDescent grammar by jeffa (Bishop) on Feb 11, 2003 at 13:22 UTC
Good idea, but this is for homework! ;) There is a Python course being taught this semester by one of my favorite professors. This is their second project, and my first thought upon seeing it (other than they should be learning Perl instead) was to attack the problem with P::RD. At first, PodMaster's suggestion worked, then i changed my code and i am still having a hard a time matching that darned 'IF'. Welcome back man, it's been too long. ;) jeffa L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L-- -R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR B--B--B--B--B--B--B--B-- H---H---H---H---H---H--- (the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)	[reply]