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Re: Make peg.el a built-in library?
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Augusto Stoffel |
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Re: Make peg.el a built-in library? |
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Fri, 01 Oct 2021 10:14:31 +0200 |
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On Thu, 30 Sep 2021 at 15:34, Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net> wrote:
> In org-ql, the PEX is redefined at load time and/or run time, being
> derived from search keywords that are defined by the package and
> possibly by the user. So the PEX can't be defined in advance, at
> compile time. So having to use `with-peg-rules' means having to use
> `eval'.
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> That's why it would be nice to have a `peg' function that could be
> called with a PEX form, to return a function that could be stored in a
> variable and later be called with a string argument, that would parse
> the string with the PEG. Sort of like Python's re.compile.
FWIW, in my use of PEGs (which is outside of Emacs, in a code
analyzer/language server for TeX), such on-the-fly generation of parsers
is used all the time as well.