[Newcompiler] Prebuild Newcompiler image based on 3.9final

Marcus Denker denker at iam.unibe.ch
Sun Nov 19 14:21:26 UTC 2006


On 19.11.2006, at 15:04, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:

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

First we need to test it a bit for ourselves...

	Marcus

> Stef
>
>
> On 19 nov. 06, at 14:14, Marcus Denker wrote:
>
>>
>> On 17.11.2006, at 21:41, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
>>
>>> 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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