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:So far, it seems like comments may contain comment characters, but that the non-comment text cannot quote or escape comment characters. This does not seem very useful. On the other hand, normally comment stripping happens inside of a parser which has mechanics to ignore comment characters when they appear in the wrong context. So the interesting task here is probably [[Parse_EBNF]]. --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] 17:37, 27 July 2011 (UTC) |
:So far, it seems like comments may contain comment characters, but that the non-comment text cannot quote or escape comment characters. This does not seem very useful. On the other hand, normally comment stripping happens inside of a parser which has mechanics to ignore comment characters when they appear in the wrong context. So the interesting task here is probably [[Parse_EBNF]]. --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] 17:37, 27 July 2011 (UTC) |
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::Except [[Parse_EBNF]] task is a little ''too'' elaborate. Here we want a parser based on some BNF, while that task requires ''creating'' a parser based on some BNF, a program writing a program sort of thing. --[[User:Ledrug|Ledrug]] 18:53, 27 July 2011 (UTC) |
::Except [[Parse_EBNF]] task is a little ''too'' elaborate. Here we want a parser based on some BNF, while that task requires ''creating'' a parser based on some BNF, a program writing a program sort of thing. --[[User:Ledrug|Ledrug]] 18:53, 27 July 2011 (UTC) |
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== White space == |
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Besides various problems abouve, why the requirement to trim whitespace? In particular, what's the point of trimming the leading whitespace? If whitespaces are significant in the underlying language(fortran, python, etc), trimming them mangles it; if not, then what does trimming achieve at all? --[[User:Ledrug|Ledrug]] 02:35, 10 September 2011 (UTC) |
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