From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Interesting article on ARG work Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2018 22:09:53 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <1b44444f-c1b3-414e-84fb-8798961487c3@googlegroups.com> <62ee0aac-49da-4925-b9aa-a16695b3fc45@googlegroups.com> <9879872e-c18a-4667-afe5-41ce0f54559f@googlegroups.com> <80db2d05-744f-4201-ba1b-4436f8040491@googlegroups.com> <59f9ab6d-d6ba-45ff-a6f0-c5699983d9e8@googlegroups.com> <1a390e22-f49f-4028-8e58-ca4d0f51e4b6@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kQkuQcRDy1QFvWpyB1foYw.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.7.0 Content-Language: en-US X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.3 Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:51403 Date: 2018-04-08T22:09:53+02:00 List-Id: On 2018-04-08 21:48, Dan'l Miller wrote: > On Sunday, April 8, 2018 at 2:46:15 AM UTC-5, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: >> if Foo then >> @ Bar; >> @ end if; >> @ if Boo then >> Baz; >> end if; >> >> would not be legal either. > > Where ␠ is the ASCII/ISO646 space character (presented as a graphical character for visualization herein), > > if Foo then > ␠ Bar; > ␠ end if; > ␠ if Boo then > Baz; > end if; > > and > > if Foo then > -- Bar; > -- end if; > -- if Boo then > Baz; > end if; > > both are legal Ada statements, spurious and non sequitur evocations of the ARM notwithstanding. > > In general, Dmitry, you seem to not understand that a generalized left-right (GLR) parser would parse both sides of the @ concurrently. Your entire premise is that it is impossible to parse both presence and absence of @ at the same time. In GLR, you are incorrect. No, I don't understand what are you trying to say or how is it related to the issue discussed. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de