Parsing TCL?
Harald Kirsch
kirschh at lionbioscience.com
Fri Jul 20 02:54:56 EDT 2001
Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> writes:
> Roy> I know this is probably a strange request, but does anybody know of
> Roy> a python module which parses TCL files?
>
> No, but isn't Tcl essentially just
>
> command arg arg arg arg
>
Except that arg may be "arg" or {arg} or [arg] or $arg and those special
characters as well as backslash and some others have to be treated
within. In fact even command may be "command" or [command] or
{command} or $command, but this is not for beginners:-)
> ? I thought it was designed to be extremely easy to parse. Shouldn't be
> hard to write a parser for it I wouldn't think.
Nevertheless you are right. The whole syntax *plus evaluation
semantics* is described in 11 points in a man-page of 208 lines.
Harald Kirsch
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