Re: [Gambas-user] Gambas language specification

2014-09-20 Thread John Leake
It is difficult to have a wider discussion on this forum without being accused of being off topic or having to elucidate to the n'th degree why I would want to take a particular view or stance. So I have raised one or two pertinent subjects to assist my plans which have not received any response.

Re: [Gambas-user] Gambas language specification

2014-09-20 Thread Benoît Minisini
Le 20/09/2014 19:11, John Leake a écrit : > Anyone know when the parser and compiler were last generated ? > The compiler was written by hand. For performance reasons if you want to know why. Regards, -- Benoît Minisini -

Re: [Gambas-user] Gambas language specification

2014-09-20 Thread Tobias Boege
On Sat, 20 Sep 2014, John Leake wrote: > Anyone know when the parser and compiler were last generated ? > What makes you so sure that the sources are generated? I don't know the compiler at all (!) but these sources look hand-written, everywhere. When I said "to produce [ bison/flex sources ] in

Re: [Gambas-user] Gambas language specification

2014-09-20 Thread John Leake
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Re: [Gambas-user] Gambas language specification

2014-09-20 Thread John Leake
It the original files that generated the compiler are not available it is too risky to reverse engineer them. On 20/09/14 14:29, Tobias Boege wrote: > On Sat, 20 Sep 2014, John Leake wrote: >> Hi All, >> Could anyone point me to the languages definitive specification as used >> by yacc and lex ? >

Re: [Gambas-user] Gambas language specification

2014-09-20 Thread Tobias Boege
On Sat, 20 Sep 2014, John Leake wrote: > Hi All, > Could anyone point me to the languages definitive specification as used > by yacc and lex ? > I think nobody can. But the more I think about it, it should be possible to produce those files in less than a week... Regards, Tobi -- "There's an

[Gambas-user] Gambas language specification

2014-09-20 Thread John Leake
Hi All, Could anyone point me to the languages definitive specification as used by yacc and lex ? -- Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that Matters. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=160591471&iu=/4140/ostg