From: Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru>
Subject: Indefinite type while writing a recursive descent parser
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2017 21:21:07 +0200
Date: 2017-11-02T21:21:07+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <otfr73$18d6$1@gioia.aioe.org> (raw)
I am writing a recursive descent parser. (It parses RDF relations rather
than a text file, but that's not very important for my question, except for
the fact that I cannot use an existing text parser package.)
While parsing I need to extract data (numbers, booleans, arrays, etc.)
My first idea was:
generic
type Data_Type(<>) is private;
package Base_Predicate is
type Base_Predicate_Parser is tagged
record
Predicate: URI_Type;
Data: access Data_Type;
end record;
not overriding
procedure Parse (Parser: Base_Predicate_Parser; Node: Node_Type) is null;
end Base_Predicate;
I wanted my node parsers to assign to Data.all if Data/=null.
But then I realized that this won't work for an indefinite Data_Type.
So I have an Ada (2012) specific issue on possible ways to assign data while
parsing. Please give advice.
I could use Indefinite_Holders everywhere but this would be a step into the
direction of being like a dynamic language instead of strong typing system
which Ada offers. I don't like to make a step in this direction.
--
Victor Porton - http://portonvictor.org
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