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April 14, 2002:
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I haven't worked on Yapps for a while, mainly because I spent all my energy
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on trying to graduate. Now that I've finished school, I have several projects
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I want to start working on again, including Yapps.
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Notes for myself:
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Add a debugging mode that helps you understand how the grammar
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is constructed and how things are being parsed
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Look into an English output mode that would use natural language
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to describe a grammar
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Optimize unused variables
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Add a convenience to automatically gather up the values returned
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from subpatterns, put them into a list, and return them
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Improve the documentation
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Write some larger examples
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Get rid of old-style regex support
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Use SRE's lex support to speed up lexing (this may be hard given that
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yapps allows for context-sensitive lexers)
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Look over Dan Connoly's experience with Yapps (bugs, frustrations, etc.)
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and see what improvements could be made
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Add something to pretty-print the grammar (without the actions)
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Maybe conditionals? Follow this rule only if <condition> holds.
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But this would be useful mainly when multiple rules match, and we
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want the first matching rule. The conditional would mean we skip to
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the next rule. Maybe this is part of the attribute grammar system,
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where rule X<0> can be specified separately from X<N>.
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Convenience functions that could build return values for all rules
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without specifying the code for each rule individually
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Patterns (abstractions over rules) -- for example, comma separated values
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have a certain rule pattern that gets replicated all over the place
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"Gather" mode that simply outputs the return values for certain nodes.
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For example, if you just want all expressions, you could ask yapps
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to gather the results of the 'expr' rule into a list. This would
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ignore all the higher level structure.
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Look at everyone's Yapps grammars, and come up with larger examples
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http://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/SemEnglish.g
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http://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/kifExpr.g
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http://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/rdfn3.g
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It would be nice if you could feed text into Yapps (push model) instead
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of Yapps reading text out of a string (pull model). However, I think
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that would make the resulting parser code mostly unreadable
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(like yacc, etc.). Coroutines/stacklesspython may be the answer.
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