[ragel-users] setting the initial state

[Nate]

Fair enough. Thanks! :)

-Nate


On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Adrian Thurston <thurston at complang.org>wrote:

> I can't say when it will be done, but I can give you an issue number :)
>
> http://www.complang.org/redmine/issues/256
>
> -Adrian
>
>
> On 04/06/2011 08:43 PM, Nate wrote:
>
>> Hi Adrian and friends,
>>
>> I need to re-parse some input, starting at an offset and an initial
>> state. I know I can just set "p" to the offset and "cs" to the state,
>> however, my states are meaningful outside of the parser. My program is a
>> language parser for syntax highlighting, so I need int constants that
>> represent the type of tokens founds. I need some way of saying, "parse
>> this char[] at offset X using initial token type LITERAL_CHAR". I don't
>> care if the LITERAL_CHAR constant is the same as the parser state, but I
>> need some way of setting "cs" to a specific machine name or label.
>>
>> I came across a post on the mailing list from 2007 saying, "For a really
>> long time now I've been meaning to implement a new feature which should
>> help you out. %% write entry <machine_or_label>;". This would work
>> nicely I think. I guess it has been a *really* really long time now, eh?
>> :D Is there any chance that this feature could be implemented soonly?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> -Nate
>>
>> PS
>> Ragel is so awesome! :)
>>
>>
>>
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