diff --git a/IDEAS b/IDEAS index 97c4cdc..d835bcf 100644 --- a/IDEAS +++ b/IDEAS @@ -1,25 +1,9 @@ 2007/07/15: +Vertical split would be awesome. Also, need more fine-grained controls for +even horizontally split windows. + +2007/07/15: + Rename "lexing" to "parsing" since really we have moved way beyond a simple lexing/tokenization strategy. - -2007/07/14: - -The rules are currently confusingly implemented, and have poor performance when -used in deeply nested grammars. - -We need to refactor lex2 so that rules have two methods: - -1. match(): -This method should return whether or not the rule can match the current input -that the lexer is lexing. If its result is true, the result will be passed -(along with the lexer, etc.) to the rule's lex() method. Otherwise, the next -rule will be tried. - -2. lex(): -This method is a generator, which is expected to return one or more tokens. In -addition to the arguments given to match() it will be passed the result of the -call to match() (which is guaranteed to be true, and will most often be a -re.Match object). As all generators, this method will raise StopIteration when -there are no more tokens to return, and will raise LexError if there are other -problems.