From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 22241@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22241: 25.0.50; etags Ruby parser problems
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2016 11:24:38 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56AF1646.9070502@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83r3gx1vdg.fsf@gnu.org>
On 01/31/2016 09:01 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> But that was a trap, wasn't it?
Almost every feature is a trap, if one considers it long enough. :)
> What can legitimately follow the '+',
> in addition to whitespace? (It's amazing, but among all the gazillion
> references to Ruby, I cannot easily find a formal description of its
> syntax.)
And there isn't one! Ruby is magical that way.
> According to this rare gem:
>
> https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ruby_Programming/Syntax
>
> (assuming I understand what it says), the RHS can be any literal, and
> also any constant expression, is that right? If so, either (a) we
> recognize only '^[ \t]([A-Z][a-z0-9_])*[ \t]*=' and get potential
> false positives on the likes of
>
> ABC == SOMETHING
> ABC =< WHATEVER
=< is not a valid operator. You must be thinking of <=.
> etc. (are these possible?); or (b) you tell me which characters can
> potentially follow the '=' in an assignment of a constant.
Why not do it like this:
If 'ABC =' is followed by any character, except for '=' and '>', you
record it as a tag "ABC".
> " # % \' ( + - < ? [ {
> 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
> A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
>
> And if we go the latter way, there are still multi-line expressions
> that I think are way too much.
What about them? Ideally, you'd skip over multi-line expressions, but
you'd have to do that whether you record constants or not.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-01 8:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-26 3:59 bug#22241: 25.0.50; etags Ruby parser problems Dmitry Gutov
2015-12-26 4:13 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-12-26 4:34 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-23 16:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-23 18:23 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-23 18:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-23 19:29 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-23 20:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-23 21:43 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-24 15:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-30 12:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-30 22:06 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-31 3:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-31 5:43 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-31 18:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-01 8:40 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-02-02 18:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-02 19:59 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-02-03 16:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-03 23:21 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-02-04 3:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-04 8:24 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-02-04 17:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-04 20:06 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-31 18:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-01 8:24 ` Dmitry Gutov [this message]
2016-02-02 18:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-30 10:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-30 16:43 ` Dmitry Gutov
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