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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
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Subject: Re: S-expression I/O in Ada
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:48:51 +0200
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Natacha Kerensikova <lithiumcat@gmail.com> writes:
> On Aug 9, 8:49 pm, Ludovic Brenta <ludo...@ludovic-brenta.org> wrote:
>> I pursued that idea a little further and actually wrote an embryonic
>> S-Expression library.  I'm not entirely satisfied with it because it
>> uses copy semantics instead of reference semantics and so is probably
>> inefficient.  But it does demonstrate how to read and write
>> S-Expressions on a stream (e.g. a file).  Also, it shows how to
>> hex-encode and hex-decode blobs, which I've modelled as Storage_Arrays.
>>
>> You can browse the sources here:
>>
>> http://green.ada-france.org:8081/branch/changes/org.ludovic-brenta.s_...
>>
>> Enjoy.  (the license is the GPLv3 or later).
>
> Interesting, though it seems your code won't like strings containing a
> double-quote.

I've corrected that and rewritten test.adb to use your example:

(tcp-connection ((host foo.bar) (port 80)))

My parser needs still the above syntax and will not accept the
theoretically equivalent

(tcp-connection (host foo.bar) (port 80))

yet.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.