[ragel-users] Re: fexec bug in v5.15?

[Carlos Antunes]

On 11/9/06, Adrian Thurston <thurs... at cs.queensu.ca> wrote:
>
> That could be done, the fhold/fexec would fix up p and immediately
> restart.
>

Exactly. Of course, the restart wouldn't happen if the an fhold or
fexec were followed by an fret, fgoto and the like.

>
>Though it would change the semantics of fhold and fexec based
> on context, which in my opinions on language design is not good thing to
> do. I'd feel better about adding another command.
>

Hmm, from the point of view of the ragel end user, things would
automagically work as "expected", no? I don't see where the change in
semantics is in this case...

>
> > Although I am too clueless to know exactly what you are talking about
> > (I'm not a computer science guy, just a lowly electrical engineer),
> > adding useful functionality for me sounds great! :-)
> No worries, all computer users are welcome :)
>
> Follow context allows you to specify what should come after the pattern,
> but does not consume it as part of the pattern. You write:
>
> 'match me' / 'match but do not consume me';
>

Ah! I've used that in flex but had no clue it was called "follow
context". This is something that I would consider *VERY* useful.

Thanks!

Carlos

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