[TYPO3-dev] TS compiler

[Stefan Kreisberg]

Elmar Hinz wrote:

> Am Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:56:58 +0300 schrieb Dmitry Dulepov:
> 
>> Hi!
>> 
>> Elmar Hinz wrote:
>>> currently I learn how to write compilers. As object of my lessons I have
>>> choosen TypoScript. I can produce the first output now, just the basics
>>> of the TS grammer for now to parse it into a PHP variable.
>>> 
>>> Is there any interest in a TS compile written in C?
>> 
>> Check adodb php library. They have php extension written in C. PHP code
>> checks if it is available (tries to load it dinamically) and uses
>> automatically (transparently for caller). If you can make TS parser like
>> this, this would be absolutely wonderful!
>> 
>  
> Hi Dmitry,
> 
> I have uploaded a first working prototype to SVN yesterday (tx_tsc). It
> does tokenizing and syntax checking. It doesn't check any
> semantics.

One question then: Is semantics verification at all possible? I would love
if it were - but I think the language is so diverse that a complete
semantic analysis would be impossible?

Do you have comtinued compilation, i.e. like "one error found" but tries to
keep on analyzing? ;-)

And what about TS for vs. 5.0?

Just some ideas/questions from my curious mind ... 

> Braced blocks and multiline values are already supported.
> 
> Copies ( < ) are TODO.
> 
> Conditions and symlinks ( =< ) will not be supported. That is IMHO the
> task of pre and post processors.
> 
> Error messages still rudimentary.
> 
> See the README for compilation and usage.
> 
> Regrads
> 
> Elmar

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