Nested Quasis
Mark S. Miller
erights at google.com
Thu Feb 2 16:16:34 PST 2012
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Mark S. Miller <erights at google.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Waldemar Horwat <waldemar at google.com>wrote:
>
>> OK. This introduces yet another lexing context, in which all productions
>> *except* QuasiMiddle and QuasiEnd are disallowed, and white space and
>> comment handling is funny. That works if the expressions must be one of
>> the two forms:
>>
>> $id
>> ${expr}
>>
>> Is that the exhaustive list, or are we looking at other forms such as $$,
>> $id.id, $id[expr], etc.?
>>
>
>
> I'll let Mike speak for the details of what he really wants to propose.
> But here are the answers from E:
>
> escapes with the quasi literal text are taken care of by the QuasiChar
> production, much like the existing definition of
>
escapes *within* ...
> DoubleStringCharacter:
>
> QuasiChar ::
> SourceCharacter but not one of $ or `
> $ $
> $ `
> $ \ EscapeSequence
>
> So that `$$` === "$", `$`` === "`", and `$\n` === "\n", respectively.
>
> Regarding `...$id.id...` and `...$id[expr]...`, only the first id in each
> case in in the quasiHole. All the text afterwards is part of the QuasiClose.
>
> --
> Cheers,
> --MarkM
>
--
Cheers,
--MarkM
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