Hi,

Jan has implemented a nice parser that allows us to specify easily productions that depend on text having to be on a new line.

For example, in Pillar, a header is specified through an exclamation mark starting on a new line. Now, you can parse this as:

#startOfLine asParser , $! asParser , #newline asParser negate star

Pretty cool!

@Jan: I think we need to enhance a bit the implementation. The implementation looks like this right now:

isStartOfLine

(position = 0) ifTrue: [ ^ true ].

^ (collection at: position) = Character cr.

This will work when the line ending is either cr or lf+cr. However, it won't work if the line ending is just lf.

For example, in my parsers, the newline implementation looks like:

(#cr asParser , #lf asParser optional) / #lf asParser / #cr asParser

What do you think?

Cheers,

Doru

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