| Type | Wish | Status | deferred | Date | 16-Jan-2009 21:40 |
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| Version | alpha 31 | Category | Syntax | Submitted by | BrianH |
| Platform | All | Severity | tweak | Priority | high |
| Summary | TRANSCODE/error tweak with commas |
|---|---|
| Description | If TRANSCODE could treat a comma as a delimiter, like it treats semi-colons, it would greatly enhance its usefulness. Wait to throw the error until the next time. |
| Example code |
Current behavior:
>> transcode/error to-binary "a,"
== [make error! [
code: 200
type: 'Syntax
id: 'invalid
arg1: "word"
arg2: "a,"
arg3: none
near: "(line 1) a,"
where: [transcode]
] #{}]
>> transcode to-binary "a,0"
** Syntax error: invalid "word" -- "a,0"
>> to-block "a,0"
** Syntax error: invalid "word" -- "a,0"
Desired behavior:
>> transcode/error to-binary "a,"
== [a make error! [
code: 200
type: 'Syntax
id: 'invalid
arg1: "word"
arg2: ","
arg3: none
near: "(line 1) a,"
where: [transcode]
] #{}]
>> equal? reduce ['a to-binary ","] transcode/next to-binary "a,"
== true
>> transcode/next to-binary "a,"
== [a #{2C}]
>> transcode to-binary "a,0"
== [a 0.0]
>> to-block "a,0"
== [a 0.0]
And the effect on LOAD:
>> load "a,0"
== [a 0.0]
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| Assigned to | n/a | Fixed in | - | Last Update | 19-Apr-2010 19:22 |
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| Comments | |
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(0000361)
Carl 23-Jan-2009 07:49 |
Is this request just for words? That may be possible, but in general comma cannot be a super-delimiter because it is valid in a range of datatypes - strings, files, issues, urls, and even decimal numbers. |
|
(0000368)
BrianH 23-Jan-2009 17:39 |
Just for words would be sufficient, yes. |
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(0001451)
BrianH 31-Jul-2009 23:49 |
Updated the example code and summary to reflect the alpha 39 changes to TRANSCODE. |
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(0001979)
Carl 6-Feb-2010 20:14 |
http://www.rebol.net/r3blogs/0306.html for discussion. |
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(0002211)
BrianH 19-Apr-2010 19:22 |
It has been suggested that there be a place in system/catalog where standard charsets that would be used by many parse rules would be stored. If a word-char charset was one of those, including all of the chars that are recognized as being part of a word! (not including the special cases), then the request for the comma tweak to TRANSCODE would be unnecessary, and could be withdrawn.
Heck, even documenting the R3 syntax with an optional module filled with charsets and parse rules - kept current with the precise syntax - would be enough. That would allow us to write a whole variety of R3 syntax analysis tools, recovery parsers and such. |
| Date | User | Field | Action | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19-Apr-2010 19:22 | BrianH | Comment : 0002211 | Added | - |
| 6-Feb-2010 20:15 | Carl | Status | Modified | reviewed => deferred |
| 6-Feb-2010 20:14 | Carl | Comment : 0001979 | Added | - |
| 1-Aug-2009 03:37 | BrianH | Code | Modified | - |
| 1-Aug-2009 00:26 | BrianH | Code | Modified | - |
| 1-Aug-2009 00:24 | BrianH | Code | Modified | - |
| 1-Aug-2009 00:20 | BrianH | Code | Modified | - |
| 31-Jul-2009 23:50 | BrianH | Comment : 0001451 | Modified | - |
| 31-Jul-2009 23:49 | BrianH | Comment : 0001451 | Added | - |
| 31-Jul-2009 23:48 | BrianH | Summary | Modified | TRANSCODE tweak with commas => TRANSCODE/error tweak with commas |
| 31-Jul-2009 23:48 | BrianH | Code | Modified | - |
| 31-Jul-2009 23:14 | BrianH | Category | Modified | => Syntax |
| 26-Feb-2009 03:35 | BrianH | Priority | Modified | normal => high |
| 23-Jan-2009 17:39 | BrianH | Comment : 0000368 | Added | - |
| 23-Jan-2009 07:49 | carl | Comment : 0000361 | Added | - |
| 19-Jan-2009 22:11 | BrianH | Code | Modified | - |
| 19-Jan-2009 22:11 | BrianH | Severity | Modified | minor => tweak |
| 19-Jan-2009 22:11 | BrianH | Status | Modified | submitted => reviewed |
| 16-Jan-2009 21:40 | BrianH | Ticket | Added | - |