[Newcompiler] Prebuild Newcompiler image based on 3.9final

[Stéphane Ducasse]

may be we should announce that and ask for testers.
This would be a good adertisment showing that SummerTalk is working :)

Stef


On 19 nov. 06, at 14:14, Marcus Denker wrote:

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> On 17.11.2006, at 21:41, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
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>> Cool.
>>
>> Marcus did you check the code of mathieu?
>
> Yes, I read over the code... looks like a good step forward.
> The grammar got not much more complicated (just a handful of error  
> cases added).
>
> But the image successfully recompiles (of course), we now need to  
> test it in real life
> to see if it it complete and does not break anything.
>
>> Is the error handling better now? (this is an excellent news in  
>> fact).
>>
>
> Yes, it's definitely moving in the right direction. But we need to  
> tweak the
> error messages a little more.
>
> Examples:
>
> 1 + Negative number, string, variable or character expected ->
> (why negative number?)
>
> (1 + 2 Right parentheses expected ->
>
> Good.
>
> 1+ 2 Period, right box bracket or right curly brackets expected ->)
>
> Hmm... period is ok. but } is not right... the old compiler just says:
> 1+ 2 Nothing more expected ->)
>
> if we add a }
>
> 1+ 2 Right box bracket expected ->}
>
> and this then:
>
> 1+ 2]
>
> does not produce any error...
>
>
>> Stef
>>
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I made a pre-build image of the latest NewCompiler+AST (with  
>>> Math' changes for good
>>> error messages), based on latest 3.9 image:
>>>
>>> http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~denker/temp/NewCompiler.zip
>>>
>>> 	Marcus
>>
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