From: Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: S-expression I/O in Ada
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 08:58:11 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2010-08-13T08:58:11-07:00 [thread overview]
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On Aug 13, 2:56 am, Natacha Kerensikova <lithium...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 13, 1:26 am, Shark8 <onewingedsh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I took a bit of a stab at writing an SExpression handler, note that
> > it's not a parser [text-file -> SExpression] but rather what (I think)
> > you were terming in-memory.
>
> Indeed, that's what my idea of my still-unnamed in-memory S-expression
> object package would look like.
>
> What I find surprising is that you seem to include type information in
> the Node type (which actually represent a S-expression atom, while S-
> expression nodes usually include lists too). Is it a typical Ada way
> of doing it?
>
> I find it surprising because the underlying S-expression format (as
> standardized by Rivest, I know almost nothing about cons pairs or
> lisp) cannot encoding that information. I would expect a S-expression
> object in memory to reflect only what can be encoded to and decoded
> from S-expression files.
>
> In fact, one can consider S-expressions as a heterogeneous container,
> in that each atom can represent an object of any type (while losing
> the type information, which has to be retrieved from somewhere else),
> in contrast to thing like vectors, whose items are all of the same
> type. Does anybody know an example of heterogeneous container in Ada?
> I'm not sure how Ada generics can be leveraged in such a case.
>
> Another interesting point is that you chose arrays to represent S-
> expression lists. Your code seems currently unable to represent empty
> lists (which are legal at least in Rivest's S-expressions) but I guess
> I can't be too difficult to correct. But it raises the question of
> array vs linked list for a S-expression object implementation.
>
> I'm not sure S-expressions would ever be used in a time-critical
> application, so the usual argument of cache-friendliness of arrays is
> pretty weak here. S-expressions are meant to be used for I/O where the
> bottleneck is most likely to be.
>
> Ada arrays are statically sized, which can be an issue for parsing,
> because S-expression format doesn't encode list length, so a list has
> to be built by pushing nodes one after the other until encountering
> the end-of-list marker. But I think that should be easily worked
> around by using vectors for unfinished S-expression lists, and once
> the list is completely parsed build the array from the vector, and
> reset the vector for further list parsing.
>
> However for S-expression objects dynamically created into memory, the
> static size of arrays might make some operations much less efficient
> than with linked lists.
>
> Any idea I'm missing about this implementation choice? Would it be
> worth to try and make such a package generic over the container type
> (array vs linked list vs something else?)?
>
> Thanks for your code example,
> Natacha
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2010-08-01 12:17 S-expression I/O in Ada Natacha Kerensikova
2010-08-01 12:53 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-08-01 17:35 ` Natacha Kerensikova
2010-08-01 18:49 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-08-01 20:06 ` Natacha Kerensikova
2010-08-01 21:13 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-08-02 7:17 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-08-02 7:58 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-08-07 7:23 ` Natacha Kerensikova
2010-08-07 8:39 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-08-07 12:56 ` Natacha Kerensikova
2010-08-07 14:23 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-08-08 12:23 ` Natacha Kerensikova
2010-08-08 13:01 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-08-08 13:49 ` Natacha Kerensikova
2010-08-08 15:15 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-08-09 9:55 ` Natacha Kerensikova
2010-08-09 10:56 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-08-10 8:56 ` Natacha Kerensikova
2010-08-10 10:17 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-08-10 10:36 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-08-10 12:06 ` Natacha Kerensikova
2010-08-10 15:46 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-08-10 21:22 ` Simon Wright
2010-08-11 7:37 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-08-11 17:32 ` Simon Wright
2010-08-11 17:53 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-08-11 9:43 ` Natacha Kerensikova
2010-08-11 10:37 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-08-11 11:38 ` Natacha Kerensikova
2010-08-11 12:58 ` Robert A Duff
2010-08-11 15:30 ` Natacha Kerensikova
2010-08-11 23:39 ` Randy Brukardt
2010-08-12 1:31 ` Robert A Duff
2010-08-12 8:53 ` Natacha Porté
2010-08-12 9:22 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-08-13 9:43 ` Natacha Kerensikova
2010-08-10 21:56 ` Randy Brukardt
2010-08-09 15:40 ` Simon Wright
2010-08-09 16:35 ` Robert A Duff
2010-08-10 0:51 ` Randy Brukardt
2010-08-10 1:00 ` Jeffrey Carter
2010-08-10 21:36 ` Randy Brukardt
2010-08-10 22:24 ` Jeffrey Carter
2010-08-10 12:50 ` Robert A Duff
2010-08-10 22:06 ` Randy Brukardt
2010-08-09 18:37 ` Natacha Kerensikova
2010-08-09 19:10 ` Robert A Duff
2010-08-08 14:08 ` Duke Normandin
2010-08-08 15:34 ` Robert A Duff
2010-08-08 18:24 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-08-08 20:03 ` Robert A Duff
2010-08-08 20:39 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-08-08 21:08 ` Robert A Duff
2010-08-09 6:50 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-08-09 13:48 ` Robert A Duff
2010-08-09 14:38 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-08-09 15:14 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-08-09 16:11 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-08-09 16:46 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-08-09 17:05 ` Robert A Duff
2010-08-09 18:29 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-08-09 19:18 ` Robert A Duff
2010-08-10 8:21 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-08-09 20:40 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-08-09 22:21 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-08-10 7:07 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-08-09 16:47 ` Robert A Duff
2010-08-09 19:59 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-08-09 21:34 ` Robert A Duff
2010-08-09 22:29 ` Jeffrey Carter
2010-08-10 7:48 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-08-09 21:54 ` _FrnchFrgg_
2010-08-09 22:32 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-08-10 7:16 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-08-10 11:06 ` _FrnchFrgg_
2010-08-10 11:19 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-08-10 23:04 ` _FrnchFrgg_
2010-08-11 14:10 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-08-11 17:51 ` Structural unification (pattern matching) in Ada [was: Re: S-expression I/O in Ada] _FrnchFrgg_
2010-08-11 18:06 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-08-11 19:43 ` Robert A Duff
2010-08-11 20:26 ` (see below)
2010-08-11 21:21 ` Structural unification (pattern matching) in Ada Simon Wright
2010-08-12 12:43 ` Structural unification (pattern matching) in Ada [was: Re: S-expression I/O in Ada] _FrnchFrgg_
2010-08-10 1:06 ` S-expression I/O in Ada Randy Brukardt
2010-08-09 16:50 ` Robert A Duff
2010-08-09 18:32 ` Natacha Kerensikova
2010-08-09 19:06 ` Jeffrey Carter
2010-08-09 19:24 ` Robert A Duff
2010-08-09 19:35 ` (see below)
2010-08-09 17:00 ` Robert A Duff
2010-08-09 20:27 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
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