Good-deed opportunity, removing recursive C calls for mxTextTools tag function

[Mike C. Fletcher]

I've recently been working on revising SimpleParse to be more reliable,
simple and predictable (not to mention easier to change).  In doing this,
I've come up against the recursive-call structure of mxTextTools Table
commands.

I've talked with Marc-André, and he doesn't have the time to work on
revising the function, and the C is way beyond me.  What looks to be
required is the following:

currentTable = figureOutTableValues( parent = NULL )
	{ C struct giving:
		table-processing local values,
		the result,
		and the parent or NULL
	}
while currentTable: # while 1, whatever :)
	case TableCommand:
		currentTable = figureOutTableValues( parent = currentTable )
		do next Table
	... # other commands

	# when finished with any given table
	# figure out the table "result tuple"
	if currentTable['parent']:
		currentTable['parent']['result'] = result
		currentTable = currentTable['parent'] # delete current too
		# do the "finished with a recursive table logic here"
	else:
		return currentTable['result']

In Python, that's all trivial stuff, so I assume it would be similarly
trivial for C coders, I just don't know the language enough to work at it.
So, if there are any C coders out there looking for a good-deed to do, this
would be appreciated by me.  Don't know if Marc-André will actually include
the revision in mxTextTools (since it might slow things down for
non-recursive code), but if not, it'd be part of SimpleParse's archive.

If anyone's interested, give me a shout and I can give more info,
background, etceteras (and make sure multiple people aren't all working on
the same thing at the same time :) ).

Dib-dib-dib, dob-dob-dob,
Mike

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 Mike C. Fletcher
 Designer, VR Plumber
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