Re: OpenToken version 3.1 preview

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>]

AdaMagica <christoph.grein@eurocopter.com> writes:

> There is a problem with Bracketed_Comment. If it extends over more
> than one line, the token is correctly recognized, but the lexeme
> fails.

The line feed characters are dropped from the lexeme, on Windows.

> You can take the Bracketed_Comment_Test in directory Test to verify
> the wrong behaviour.

I've added a test that shows the problem. 

I don't suppose you have an idea of how to fix it?

It will be interesting to figure out how to make that test portable
between Windows and Gnu/Linux. The easiest way to identify which line
ending to use that I know of is to look at
GNAT.Directory_Operations.Dir_Separator; it's '\' for CR LF, '/' for
LF. Don't know how to deal with Mac!

The Ada standard intended System.Name to deal with this, but in GNAT
that's always SYSTEM_NAME_GNAT, so that's no help.

Anyone have a better idea?

>> If someone could provide dates for the previous OpenToken releases,
>> that would be fun.
>
> These should be on Ted Dennisons's site.

If you mean
http://www.telepath.com/~dennison/Ted/OpenToken/OpenToken.html, there
are a couple of dates there, thanks:

8/13/00 - Version 3.0b is now available.
1/27/00 - Version 2.0 is now available. 

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-- Stephe