Troels Henriksen athas@sigkill.dk writes:
Christophe Rhodes csr21@cantab.net writes:
- being able to use Chord Ontology syntax in a buffer, where there is no parse per se, but the buffer is lexed according to the token syntax.
I don't understand this. How would you have a buffer syntax with "no parse per se"?
Sorry, I meant that there would be no parse for the buffer beyond a sequence of tokens.
Is this sensible, worthwhile, possible, easy? I would have thought that we would have essentially all the components already, and it was a matter of gluing them together, but maybe I'm forgetting a snag?
I would think this is possible, we already have a state machine, cl-automaton, I think it can be adapted for this purpose.
OK, good.
(Annoyingly, I realised after I posted that some of the mini languages that I have a need to support include elements that are not regular: the common case is properly-nesting balanced comments. I don't know the capabilities of cl-automaton; can it represent such things?)
Cheers,
Christophe