[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [RFC PATCH] init_techs

[Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 09:33:28AM -0400, Daniel L Speyer wrote:
> What about a truly general and extendable parsing?  Admittedly, this would
> be difficult to write, but break down the command line according to
> syntactical rules and then pass each function manually typed void*s.  A
> callback function would look like
> 
> enum datatype;
> void do_command(int argV, datatype argT[], char *argC[]);
> 
> Then if a function wants different arguments, it can throw some sort of
> generalized error (not literally throw, that's just the idea).  There
> could even be a function int checkarguments(int Vgiven,datatype
> Tgiven[],int Vwanted,datatype Twanted[]) which would check everything,
> give an appropriate error, and then return whether or not the function
> should proceed.
> 
> If we designed it to be extensible enough, we could get the benefits of
> both unified syntax and extendable functions.

You know (f)lex and yacc/bison?

        Raimar

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