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[ANN] nyacc version 0.86.0 released


From: Matt Wette
Subject: [ANN] nyacc version 0.86.0 released
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2018 16:51:41 -0700
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I have released nyacc version 0.86.0.  This release includes the following:
1) I reworked the parser to behave with interactive use in Guile better.
2) I hacked on the example language compilers to operate at the Guile
   command line.  (You can run "make install-nx-languages".)
3) I replaced use of (ice-9 regexp) for the bootstrapper team. (you know
   who you are)
4) I fixed a bug in in nyacc/lex.scm make-num-reader which broke on certain
   integer forms; and now allow .123 as a legal float.
5) I fixed compile-ffi.scm to correctly show help message w/o filename arg.

The nx-languages include javascript, octave and tcl.  "nx" stands for both
"nyacc extension" and "not exactly".  These are a bit rough right now.  But
the parser / compiler design becoming more uniform among them:
1) The nyacc-generated parsers (except for nx-tcl) generate SXMl trees.
2) The 'to Tree-IL" compilers use (Andy Wingo's) foldts*-values to pick
   off easy stuff and declarations on the way down and build up Tree-IL
   on the way up.

  scheme@(guile-user)> ,L nx-javascript
  Happy hacking with nx-javascript!  To switch back, type `,L scheme'.
  nx-javascript@(guile-user)> var a = 1;

  nx-javascript@(guile-user)> ,L nx-octave
  Happy hacking with nx-octave!  To switch back, type `,L nx-javascript'.
  nx-octave@(guile-user)> b = 2;

  nx-octave@(guile-user)> ,L nx-tcl
  Happy hacking with nx-tcl!  To switch back, type `,L nx-octave'.
  nx-tcl@(guile-user)> set c 3

  nx-tcl@(guile-user)> ,L scheme
  Happy hacking with Scheme!  To switch back, type `,L nx-tcl'.
  scheme@(guile-user)> (+ a b (string->number c))
  $1 = 6

I will be working on Tcl to do more agressive parsing (e..g, 123 as
integer instead of string) and lazy conversion to strings.

I am thinking about a simple object model that can be used with
multiple extension languages.

And I like my new elisp minor mode that helps make awesome docstrings:
(available athttps://github.com/mwette/guile-contrib)

  scheme@(guile-user)> ,use (nyacc parse)
  scheme@(guile-user)> ,d make-lalr-parser
  - Procedure: make-lalr-parser mach [options] => parser
       Generate a procedure for parsing a language, where MACH is a
       machine generated by 'make-lalr-machine'.  This generates a
       procedure that takes one argument, a lexical analyzer:
            (parser lexical-analyzer #:debug #t)
       and is used as
            (define xyz-parse (make-lalr-parser xyz-mach))
            (with-input-from-file "sourcefile.xyz"
              (lambda () (xyz-parse (gen-lexer))))
       The generated parser is reentrant.  Options are:
       '#:skip-if-unexp'
            This is a list of tokens to skip if not expected.  It is used
            to allow comments to be skipped.  The default is ''()'.
       '#:interactive'
            If '#t', this tells the parserthat this is being called
            interactively, so that the token '$end' is not expected.  The
            default value is '#f'.


NYACC, for Not Yet Another Compiler Compiler, is set of guile modules for
generating parsers and lexical analyzers.  It also provides sample parsers
and pretty-printers using SXML trees as an intermediate representation.

It provides a decent C parser and a `FFI Helper' tool to help create
Guile Scheme bindings for C-based libraries.

It provides (partially implemented) compilers based on above mentioned
parsers to allow execution with Guile as extension languages.

NYACC maturity is beta level.

NYACC is free software; the full source distribution is available through

* the tarball repository:
    https://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/nyacc/

* the git repository:
    git://git.savannah.nongnu.org/nyacc.git

home page, project page and user's guide:
*http://www.nongnu.org/nyacc
*https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/nyacc
*http://www.nongnu.org/nyacc/nyacc-ug.html

For support see:
    https://savannah.nongnu.org/support/?group=nyacc




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