Re: various items

I agree that one should not have identifiers differing only in case. However, I think, case-insensitive languages lead to inconsistent code, especially for newbies: I currently take a Astrophysics lecture where we program in FORTRAN. Most of my colleges have never written a program before and they have never learned writing good looking source: DO ii = 1,5 if mod(Il, 2) = 0 Then Write(*,*) Ii END if end do Not really easy to find bugs like this, I think ;) Sorry, my example is bad, it was just a silly idea of mine how I could resolve my problem. The real thing is the following: I am trying to parse Smalltalk code inside a completely different grammar, similar to what you did with the SmallWiki parser. My parser stripped down to the problem is the following, the scanner is similar to StScanner in the SmaCC examples: Method : Selector Condition? Body { ... } ; Selector : (<keyword> Pattern)+ { ... } ; Pattern : <name> { ... } ; Condition : "if:" "[" { parse smalltalk block } ; Body : { parse smalltalk method body } ; When giving input like a: anA b: aB if: [ ... ] ^self I get a: anA b: aB if: [ Token not expected ->... ] ^self even before my code { parse smalltalk block } is evaluated. Similar when giving a: anA b: aB ^self I get a: anA b: aB Token not expected ->^self before I even had a chance to start the RB parser in { parse smalltalk method body }. I expect that I'm doing something completely wrong, but can't find the problem. I also tried to go with the debugger through the SmallWiki parser, but there it just works and I don't see any significant difference. Thanks a lot for your help, Lukas -- Lukas Renggli http://renggli.freezope.org