close-group tokens and error messages

Mike Austin <mike@mike-austin.com>
Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:23:32 -0800

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From: Mike Austin <mike@mike-austin.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:23:32 -0800
Organization: at&t http://my.att.net/
Keywords: smalltalk, parse, question
Posted-Date: 19 Dec 2008 05:33:12 EST

Hi all, and pre-happy-holidays :) I've got a question about
close-group tokens and error messages. If anybody has thoughts on the
subject I'd appreciate the help. Say you have the following *invalid*
Smalltalk expression:


(5 sin 10)


I'd like to print an error message if something other than an
identifier or operator is found after a message ("sin" in this case).
Close-paren is also not valid, but not an error either - it simply
exits the recursive message parsing function.


Testing for close-paren doesn't seem like the right thing to do, since
there may be other types of grouping tokens such as [], {}, etc. I
could test for literals, but testing something for *not* being there
seems odd, and there may be other tokens that are not valid.


Any insights?




Thanks much,
Mike


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