Re: progress on new AST
[email protected] (Jeremy Hylton) Wed, 10 Apr 2002 08:55:26 -0400
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>>>>> "SM" == Skip Montanaro <[email protected]> writes: SM> What needs to be pitched? I'm generally more familiar with SM> pitching stuff out, but not in a software setting. Reviewing the AST to make sure it accurately describes Python. Once I get started on the transformer, there will be lots of code to write. I don't know how easy it will be to split that task up. SM> Will the new ASDL code eventually lead to more user-friendly SM> error messages and decent enough error recovery that it won't SM> have to give up after the first syntax error it encounters? Unfortunately, no. The ASDL stuff describes the AST -- a compiler intermediate representation. The error recovery needs to be added to the parser. Jeremy