Re: gnubol: Free-form problem

[Tim Josling <tej@melbpc.org.au>]

It is column dependent :-( so the lex has to do new states at newline
etc.

I think I did have the right idea, except I appear to have invented the
notion that a 'period space' can also end a comment-entry, I can't find
it anywhere in the standard.

Tim Josling

Chad Slaughter wrote:
> 
> Michael McKernan wrote :>
> >
> >Well, I've reached my first impasse, but I trust if I had later
> >materials, I might know what to do.  I've been trying to compose the
> 
> nope you wouldnt. This is a major problem.
> 
> >I can put together this rather ugly hack to approximate the rule, but
> >I had to exclude the paragraph and division names from comment-entry.
> 
> the only way to do it is look for the next division header which marks the
> end of the ident div.
> 
> >Which says to eat all the tokens that are not in the ID_PARA_END
> >list.  This is obviously the wrong strategy.
> >
> >What's the right answer?
> 
> there isnt one.
> 
> And I thin Tim has the right idea on this one.
> 
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