[Ohrrpgce] Two related questions

[Mike Caron]

I'm sure I can figure out how to detect tokens :)

Anyway, I've started working on it right now, but I won't say much
about it's planned features, since there's about a 78.4% chance that
it'll never come to fruition. *sigh*

On 5/28/05, Bob the Hamster <Bob at hamsterrepublic.com> wrote:
> On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 04:51:25PM -0400, Mike Caron wrote:
> > > It might be more productive (and fun) to re-implement those two features
> > > as a plug-in for some existing code-editor (although I don't know a
> > > suitable code editor off the top of my head.)
> >
> > The main problem with writing a plugin for other editors is that the
> > syntax rather fluid. Commands can really be called whatever the
> > scripter wants (if they want to edit plotscr.hsd), and I can't recall
> > any language that treats white space the way Hamster Speak does.
> >
> > I'll probably write a new editor in VB.Net or something. Or in QBasic.
> > *evil grin* Just kidding!
> 
> *laugh* Yes.
> 
> HamsterSpeak's whietespace behaviour is truly strange. The only language
> I have ever enountered that came anywhere close was COBOL... and if you
> know COBOL, you will know that is a really inaccurate comparison anyway,
> since COBOL's wierd whitepace handling is wierd in a completely
> different way.
> 
> Anyway. Any editor that supports symbol regognition (and syntax
> highlighing) according to Regular Expressions could totally support
> HamsterSpeak.
> 
> For example, suppose you wanted to match "suspend NPC walls" no matter
> how it was written. You would lowercase it and collapse all spaces to
> "suspendnpcwalls" then you would insert " *" between each letter,
> optionally matching an unknown number of spaces, getting
> "s *u *s *p *e *n *d *n *p *c *w *a *l *l *s" and then you would do a
> case-insensitive regex match, and it would match "suspend NPC walls" no
> matter how the spacing was written, just like HSPEAK does (HSPEAK
> doesn't use regular expressions, but I *wish* it did. It would be
> simpler.)
> 
> Oh dear. I have started ranting about regexes, so I think I shall shut
> up now before I talk all your ears off ;)
> 
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> James
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