On Wed, 3 Dec 2008 23:07:26 -0800, "Ken Harris" kengruven@gmail.com wrote:

When playing around with cl-ppcre 2.0.1, I've discovered this:

(cl-ppcre::parse-string "?") -> :QUESTION-MARK

I found this odd, since :QUESTION-MARK isn't part of the parse-tree grammar in the docs. Two or more ("??", "???", etc.) also leave a :QUESTION-MARK in the parse-tree. I took a quick look at the source code, and it looks like :QUESTION-MARK is used by the lexer (with other keywords like :CLOSE-PAREN), but that it seems to expect them to be replaced by the time you end up with a parse-tree.

In comparison, if you try to use ")", like (cl-ppcre::parse-string ")"), it signals a condition in parse-string. I can't find any way to get :CLOSE-PAREN in the output. It's a little weird that it can parse "??" but then signals if you try to use it.

If I try to cl-ppcre:scan anything with one of these, I get a ppcre-syntax-error, "Unknown token QUESTION-MARK in parse tree". I don't know if this is a bug or not, and I don't think I'm going to run into a situation where this matters, but there you go. :-)

Yeah, this looks like an oversight. I'll check.

Thanks for the report, Edi.