Close a scope in code

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Posted 21 years ago by Steven Liu
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I encountered a number of difficulties when dealing with scopes that does not have explicit closing keyword. I found that sometimes the end result depends on the internal logic of SyntaxEditor. e.g. when multiple scopes have overlapping closing pattern, which one takes precedence? It may not behave as I expected.

I begin to think that a better approach may be to use code to fine tune the behavior. I want to define a coarse pattern (such as "\n") to close the scope in syntax definition. Then at runtime, each closing scope match will trigger an event, so I can write code in the event handler to decide whether I really want to close the scope, by looking ahead into the token stream and do complex conditional processing. Something like "SyntacticalParser" as opposed to "SemanticParser".

Is there a way to do that now, or something to be considered in future release?
Steven

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Posted 21 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA
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Right now there isn't a way to do that. I'll add that to our TODO list though.


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Posted 19 years ago by Steven Liu
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Hi,
I am wondering if 4.0 has this feature.
Steven
Posted 19 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA
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Not built into dynamic (v3.1 style) languages. However if you write a programmatic lexical parser (new in v4.0) I believe you can do this. You can download the beta to try it out.


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The latest build of this product (v25.1.0) was released 10 days ago, which was after the last post in this thread.

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