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  • SuperFola@programming.devEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    It’s been months (8 to be exact) but I’m still working on integrating a new parser in my language, ArkScript. Not that it’s hard, motivation just wears off every so often, because I stumble across an old piece of code that I should modernize and/or optimize. Everything is in place except import resolution which has changed drastically between the two parsers

    I went from

    # imports everything in the current scope
# just copy paste code
(import "foo/bar/egg.ark")

    to

    # imports everything with the prefix `egg.`
(import foo.bar.egg)
# imports everything from bar in the current scope without a prefix
(import foo.bar:*)
# imports only a and b symbols from bar
# (plus any symbol they use, in a hidden "namespace")
(import foo.bar :a :b)

    It also takes a long time to merge the CI for the parser with the current CI, because the latter is very big, clunky and old ; hopefully I’ll be done before the end of the year!