Warning: this is an htmlized version!
The original is here, and
the conversion rules are here.
#######
#
# E-scripts on lpeg.
#
# Note 1: use the eev command (defined in eev.el) and the
# ee alias (in my .zshrc) to execute parts of this file.
# Executing this file as a whole makes no sense.
# An introduction to eev can be found here:
#
#   (find-eev-quick-intro)
#   http://angg.twu.net/eev-intros/find-eev-quick-intro.html
#
# Note 2: be VERY careful and make sure you understand what
# you're doing.
#
# Note 3: If you use a shell other than zsh things like |&
# and the for loops may not work.
#
# Note 4: I always run as root.
#
# Note 5: some parts are too old and don't work anymore. Some
# never worked.
#
# Note 6: the definitions for the find-xxxfile commands are on my
# .emacs.
#
# Note 7: if you see a strange command check my .zshrc -- it may
# be defined there as a function or an alias.
#
# Note 8: the sections without dates are always older than the
# sections with dates.
#
# This file is at <http://angg.twu.net/e/lpeg.e>
#           or at <http://angg.twu.net/e/lpeg.e.html>.
#        See also <http://angg.twu.net/emacs.html>,
#                 <http://angg.twu.net/.emacs[.html]>,
#                 <http://angg.twu.net/.zshrc[.html]>,
#                 <http://angg.twu.net/escripts.html>,
#             and <http://angg.twu.net/>.
#
#######




# «.lpeg-debian»		(to "lpeg-debian")
# «.metatable»			(to "metatable")
# «.lpeg-source»		(to "lpeg-source")
# «.lpeg-debug-mode»		(to "lpeg-debug-mode")
# «.LpegDebugMode1»		(to "LpegDebugMode1")
# «.globals»			(to "globals")
# «.lpeg-quickref»		(to "lpeg-quickref")
# «.lpeg-Cs-and-C»		(to "lpeg-Cs-and-C")
# «.lpeg-matchtime»		(to "lpeg-matchtime")
# «.lpeg-matchtime-suchthat»	(to "lpeg-matchtime-suchthat")
# «.lpeg-named»			(to "lpeg-named")
# «.lpeg-unnamed»		(to "lpeg-unnamed")
# «.lpeg-unnamed-email»		(to "lpeg-unnamed-email")
# «.lpeg-back»			(to "lpeg-back")
# «.lpeg-Carg»			(to "lpeg-Carg")
# «.re-quickref»		(to "re-quickref")
# «.Re»				(to "Re")
# «.Re-balanced»		(to "Re-balanced")
# «.eoo-re»			(to "eoo-re")
# «.pegdebug0»			(to "pegdebug0")
# «.pegdebug»			(to "pegdebug")
# «.LpegDebug»			(to "LpegDebug")
# «.lulpeg»			(to "lulpeg")
# «.lpeglabel»			(to "lpeglabel")
# «.lpegrex»			(to "lpegrex")
# «.lpegrex-keywords»		(to "lpegrex-keywords")
# «.lpegrex-json»		(to "lpegrex-json")
# «.lpegrex-tag»		(to "lpegrex-tag")
# «.lpegrex-grammar»		(to "lpegrex-grammar")
# «.folding»			(to "folding")
# «.lpeg-table-captures»	(to "lpeg-table-captures")
# «.tati-2018»			(to "tati-2018")
# «.railroad-diagrams»		(to "railroad-diagrams")
# «.capts-question»		(to "capts-question")
# «.capts-question-2»		(to "capts-question-2")
# «.capts-subpat-analogy»	(to "capts-subpat-analogy")
#   «.associativity»		(to "associativity")
# «.capts-cbcgct»		(to "capts-cbcgct")
# «.capts-lpeg.C»		(to "capts-lpeg.C")
# «.capts-current-table»	(to "capts-current-table")
# «.apr-capts-prep»		(to "apr-capts-prep")
# «.apr-capts»			(to "apr-capts")
# «.lpeg.Cobeying»		(to "lpeg.Cobeying")
# «.lpeg.Cfromthere»		(to "lpeg.Cfromthere")
# «.lpeg.Ccall»			(to "lpeg.Ccall")
# «.compare-pm»			(to "compare-pm")
# «.emacsconf2023»		(to "emacsconf2023")
# «.bapl»			(to "bapl")
# «.replace-printfs-1»		(to "replace-printfs-1")
# «.replace-printfs-2»		(to "replace-printfs-2")
# «.long-strings»		(to "long-strings")
# «.marpa»			(to "marpa")



# (find-es "lua5" "lpeg-quickref")
# (find-es "lua5" "lpeg-re-finch")
# (find-es "lua-intro" "lpeg-re-infix-1")
# (find-es "lua-intro" "lpeg-re-1")

# http://lua-users.org/wiki/LpegTutorial




#####
#
# lpeg-debian
# 2021sep26
#
#####

# «lpeg-debian»  (to ".lpeg-debian")

# (find-status   "lua-lpeg")
# (find-vldifile "lua-lpeg:amd64.list")
# (find-udfile   "lua-lpeg/")
# (find-fline "/usr/share/lua/5.1/re.lua")
# (find-fline "/usr/share/lua/5.2/re.lua")
# (find-fline "/usr/share/lua/5.3/re.lua")


-- (find-fline "/usr/share/lua/5.1/re.lua")
-- (find-fline "/usr/share/lua/5.1/re.lua" ".__div")

m = require"lpeg"
mm = m
mt = getmetatable(mm.P(0))
PPV(mt)
PPV(mt.__index)

# (find-status   "lua-lpeg-dev")
# (find-vldifile "lua-lpeg-dev:amd64.list")
# (find-udfile   "lua-lpeg-dev/")
# (find-status   "lua-lpeg-patterns")
# (find-vldifile "lua-lpeg-patterns.list")
# (find-udfile   "lua-lpeg-patterns/")



#####
#
# metatable
# 2023aug19
#
#####

# «metatable»  (to ".metatable")
# (find-angg "LUA/lua50init.lua" "eoo")

* (eepitch-lua51)
* (eepitch-kill)
* (eepitch-lua51)
lpeg = require"lpeg"
pat  = lpeg.P(1)
mt   = getmetatable(pat)
PPV(mt)
PPV(mt.__index)
PPV(lpeg)
= (getmetatable(pat).__index == lpeg)
= pat
= pat:type()

otype_metatables = {}
otype = function (o)
    local  mt = getmetatable(o)
    return mt and (otype_metatables[mt] or mt.type) or type(o)
  end

otype_metatables[getmetatable(lpeg.P(1))] = "lpeg"

= otype(pat) 






#####
#
# lpeg-source
# 2021sep26
#
#####

# «lpeg-source»  (to ".lpeg-source")
# (to "lpeg-debug-mode")
# http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg/lpeg.html#download
# http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg/lpeg-1.0.2.tar.gz

* (eepitch-shell)
* (eepitch-kill)
* (eepitch-shell)
rm -Rv ~/usrc/lpeg-1.0.2/
mkdir  ~/usrc/lpeg-1.0.2/
tar -C ~/usrc/ -xvzf $S/http/www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg/lpeg-1.0.2.tar.gz
cd     ~/usrc/lpeg-1.0.2/

rm -fv *.o
rm -fv *.so
rm -fv om
# (find-fline "~/emlua/Makefile")
# (find-fline "~/emlua/Makefile" "-I$(LUA_INCLUDE_DIR)")
make LUADIR=/usr/include/lua5.1 COPT="-O2 -DNDEBUG"   |& tee om

# (code-c-d "lpegsrc" "~/usrc/lpeg-1.0.2/")
# (find-lpegsrcfile "")
# (find-lpegsrcfile "lptree.c" "{\"ptree\", lp_printtree},")
# (find-lpegsrcfile "lptree.c" "{\"pcode\", lp_printcode}")
# (find-lpegsrctag "lp_printtree")
# (find-lpegsrctag "lp_printcode")
# (find-lpegsrctag "printktable")
# (find-lpegsrctag "printtree")
# (find-lpegsrcgrep "grep --color=auto -niH --null -e debug *")
# (find-lpegsrcgrep "grep --color=auto -niH --null -e 'only implemented in debug mode' *")
# (find-lpegsrcgrep "grep --color=auto -nH --null -e lp_divcapture *")
# (find-lpegsrcgrep "grep --color=auto -nH --null -e Cb *.c")
# (find-lpegsrcgrep "grep --color=auto -nH --null -e backref *.c")

* (eepitch-lua51)
* (eepitch-kill)
* (eepitch-lua51)
-- (find-blogme3file "htmlize-utf8.lua")
require "lpeg"
AlphaNumeric = lpeg.R("AZ", "az", "09")
AnchorChar = AlphaNumeric + lpeg.S("!#$%()*+,-./:;=?@^_{|}~")
= AnchorChar:pcode()
= AnchorChar:ptree()



#####
#
# lpeg-debug-mode
# 2022jun30
#
#####

# «lpeg-debug-mode»  (to ".lpeg-debug-mode")
# (to "LpegDebugMode1")
# (to "replace-printfs-1")
# (to "lpeg-source")
# http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2023-04/msg00030.html
# http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg/lpeg.html#download
# http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg/lpeg-1.1.0.tar.gz
#
# (code-c-d "lpegsrc" "~/usrc/lpeg-1.1.0/" :tags)
# (find-lpegsrcfile "")
# (find-lpegsrcfile "makefile")
# (find-lpegsrcfile "makefile" "linux:")
# (find-lpegsrcfile "makefile" "macosx:")
# (find-lpegsrcfile "makefile" "macosx:" "-undefined dynamic_lookup")
# (find-lpegsrcfile "makefile" "-I$(LUADIR)")
# (find-lpegsrcgrep "grep --color=auto -nH --null -e LPEG_DEBUG *.h *.c")
# (find-fline "~/emlua/Makefile")
# (find-fline "~/emlua/Makefile" "-I$(LUA_INCLUDE_DIR)")

* (eepitch-shell)
* (eepitch-kill)
* (eepitch-shell)
rm -Rv ~/usrc/lpeg-1.1.0/
mkdir  ~/usrc/lpeg-1.1.0/
tar -C ~/usrc/ -xvzf $S/http/www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg/lpeg-1.1.0.tar.gz
cd     ~/usrc/lpeg-1.1.0/
ls *.c *.h | tee .files.ch
etags      $(cat .files.ch)

rm -fv *.o
rm -fv *.so
rm -fv om
make LUADIR=/usr/include/lua5.1 COPT="-O2 -DLPEG_DEBUG"   |& tee om

* (eepitch-lua51)
* (eepitch-kill)
* (eepitch-lua51)
-- (find-blogme3file "htmlize-utf8.lua")
-- Path.prependtocpath "~/usrc/lpeg-1.1.0/?.so"
-- = package.cpath
package.cpath = "/home/edrx/usrc/lpeg-1.1.0/?.so;" .. package.cpath
require "lpeg"
AlphaNumeric = lpeg.R("AZ", "az", "09")
AnchorChar = AlphaNumeric + lpeg.S("!#$%()*+,-./:;=?@^_{|}~")
= AnchorChar:pcode()
= AnchorChar:ptree()
  AnchorChar:pcode()
  AnchorChar:ptree()



2023apr15:
Better ways to use -DLPEG_DEBUG, :pcode(), and :ptree()?

Hi list,

I know that I can examine the internal representation of (compiled)
lpeg patterns by compiling lpeg with -DLPEG_DEBUG and then running
some methods like :pcode() and :ptree(), as in the code below... but
these methods use printfs, and so they send their output to stdout.

People, do you have any tricks - wrappers, maybe? - to display these
debugging outputs in other ways?

Here is some code that works, but that is clumsy:

--snip--snip--
rm -Rv /tmp/lpeg-1.0.2*
cd     /tmp/
wget https://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg/lpeg-1.0.2.tar.gz
tar -xvzf   lpeg-1.0.2.tar.gz
cd     /tmp/lpeg-1.0.2/
make LUADIR=/usr/include/lua5.1 COPT="-O2 -DLPEG_DEBUG"

cat > o.lua <<'%%%'
require "lpeg"
AlphaNumeric = lpeg.R("AZ", "az", "09")
AnchorChar = AlphaNumeric + lpeg.S("!#$%()*+,-./:;=?@^_{|}~")
AnchorChar:pcode()
AnchorChar:ptree()
%%%

lua5.1 o.lua | tee o.out
--snip--snip--

  Thanks in advance!
  Eduardo Ochs
    http://anggtwu.net/luaforth.html

# (find-fline "/tmp/lpeg-1.0.2/o.out")




#####
#
# LpegDebugMode1
# 2024jan30
#
#####

# «LpegDebugMode1»  (to ".LpegDebugMode1")
# (to "lpeg-debug-mode")
# (find-angg "LUA/LpegDebugMode1.lua")

* (eepitch-lua51)
* (eepitch-kill)
* (eepitch-lua51)
Path.addLUAtopath()
require "LpegDebugMode1"    -- (find-angg "LUA/LpegDebugMode1.lua")
= run " P(1):pcode()   "
= run " P(2):pcode()   "
= run " P('a'):pcode() "
= run " C(1):pcode()   "
= run " C('a'):pcode()   "
= run " (C('a') * C('b')):pcode()   "
= run " ((C('a') * C('b'))^-4):ptree()   "
= run " ((C('a') * C('b'))^-4):pcode()   "






#####
#
# globals
# 2022mar17
#
#####

# «globals»  (to ".globals")
# (to "compare-pm")

* (eepitch-lua51)
* (eepitch-kill)
* (eepitch-lua51)
require "lpeg"
= mapconcat(id, sorted(keys(lpeg)), " ")

B,C,P,R,S,V = lpeg.B,lpeg.C,lpeg.P,lpeg.R,lpeg.S,lpeg.V
Cb,Cc,Cf,Cg = lpeg.Cb,lpeg.Cc,lpeg.Cf,lpeg.Cg
Cp,Cs,Ct    = lpeg.Cp,lpeg.Cs,lpeg.Ct
Carg,Cmt    = lpeg.Carg,lpeg.Cmt

lpeg.ptmatch = function (pat, str) PP(pat:Ct():match(str)) end




#####
#
# lpeg-quickref
# 2021sep27
#
#####

# «lpeg-quickref»  (to ".lpeg-quickref")
# From: (find-es "lua-intro" "lpeg-quickref")
# http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg.html
# http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg/lpeg.html
# file:///usr/share/doc/lua-lpeg-dev/lpeg.html
# file:///usr/share/doc/lua-lpeg-dev/lpeg.html#grammar
# file:///home/edrx/usrc/lpeg-1.0.2/lpeg.html

lpeg.P(str)    matches str
lpeg.P(0)      matches always
lpeg.P(1)      matches one char (".")
lpeg.P(2)      matches two chars ("..")
lpeg.P(-1)     matches if there isn't another char (end of string)
lpeg.P(-2)     matches if there aren't two more chars
lpeg.P(p)      return the pattern p unmodified
lpeg.P(f)      if f(subj, pos) returns a valid newpos then matches until it
lpeg.P(gra)    matches the first entry (gra[1]) in the grammar gra (a table)
lpeg.V(2)      matches the second entry (gra[2]) in the grammar above this
lpeg.R("az", "AZ") matches any char in ranges - like "[A-Za-z]"
lpeg.S("abd")  matches any char in set - like "[abd]"
#patt          like patt, but without consuming input
-patt          like #patt, but negating the result
p1 * p2        concatenation: "p1p2"
p1 + p2        bounded prioritized choice - roughly like "p1|p2"
p1 - p2        equivalent to -p2 * p1
1 - cset       a char not in cset
patt ^ 0       at least 0 occurrences of patt - like "patt*"
patt ^ 1       at least 1 occurrence  of patt - like "patt+"
patt ^ 2       at least 2 occurrences of patt
patt ^ -1      at most  1 occurrence  of patt - like "patt?"
patt ^ -2      at most  2 occurrences of patt

lpeg.C(patt)   the substring matched by patt (then patt's other captures)
lpeg.Ca(patt)  if patt captures a,f,g,h then h(g(f(a)))   <--- WRONG!
lpeg.Cc(v)     matches the empty string, captures the value v
lpeg.Cp()      matches the empty string, captures the current position
lpeg.Cs(patt)  the substring matched by patt, after substitutions
lpeg.Ct(patt)  all captures made by patt as a table
patt / f       if patt captured a,b,c then f(a, b, c)
patt / "_%2_"  if patt captured "foo" and "bar" then "_bar_"
patt / tbl     if patt captured a and b then tbl[a]

lpeg.Cg(patt, name)    group capture

lpeg.Cf(patt, f)    a folding of the captures from patt
lpeg.Cmt(patt, f)   the returns of f applied to the captures of patt; match-time

  (find-es "lua5" "lpeg.Cmt")
  (find-es "lua5" "lpeg.Cmt-2")




#####
#
# lpeg.Cs and lpeg.C
# 2023apr14
#
#####

# «lpeg-Cs-and-C»  (to ".lpeg-Cs-and-C")
# lpeg.Cs substitutes submatches.
# lpeg.C returns the region and after that the other captures.

* (eepitch-lua51)
* (eepitch-kill)
* (eepitch-lua51)
require "lpeg"
B,C,P,R,S,V = lpeg.B,lpeg.C,lpeg.P,lpeg.R,lpeg.S,lpeg.V
Cb,Cc,Cf,Cg = lpeg.Cb,lpeg.Cc,lpeg.Cf,lpeg.Cg
Cp,Cs,Ct    = lpeg.Cp,lpeg.Cs,lpeg.Ct
Carg,Cmt    = lpeg.Carg,lpeg.Cmt
lpeg.ptmatch = function (pat, str) PP(pat:Ct():match(str)) end

(P"a"  *  Cs"b"       * P"c")      : ptmatch("abcd")
(P"a"  * (Cs"b"/"BB") * P"c")      : ptmatch("abcd")
(P"a"  * (Cs"b"/"BB") * P"c"):Cs() : ptmatch("abcd")
(P"a"  * (Cs"b"/"BB") * P"c"):C()  : ptmatch("abcd")





#####
#
# lpeg-matchtime
# 2023mar29
#
#####

# «lpeg-matchtime»  (to ".lpeg-matchtime")
# http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg/lpeg.html#matchtime
# file:///usr/share/doc/lua-lpeg-dev/lpeg.html
# file:///usr/share/doc/lua-lpeg-dev/lpeg.html#matchtime
# (find-lpegmanual "#matchtime")

* (eepitch-lua51)
* (eepitch-kill)
* (eepitch-lua51)
require "lpeg"
B,C,P,R,S,V = lpeg.B,lpeg.C,lpeg.P,lpeg.R,lpeg.S,lpeg.V
Cb,Cc,Cf,Cg = lpeg.Cb,lpeg.Cc,lpeg.Cf,lpeg.Cg
Cp,Cs,Ct    = lpeg.Cp,lpeg.Cs,lpeg.Ct
Carg,Cmt    = lpeg.Carg,lpeg.Cmt
lpeg.ptmatch = function (pat, str) PP("Outside:", pat:Ct():match(str)) end
pc = Cs(P(1))

f1 = function (...) PP("Inside:", ...); return true end
f2 = function (...) PP("Inside:", ...); return false end
f3 = function (subj,pos,c) PP("subj,pos,c:", subj,pos,c); return pos end
f4 = function (subj,pos,c) PP("subj,pos,c:", subj,pos,c); return pos+1 end
f5 = function (subj,pos,c) PP("subj,pos,c:", subj,pos,c); return 6, "!", "!" end

(pc*pc*pc:Cmt(f1)*pc):ptmatch("abcdef")
(pc*pc*pc:Cmt(f2)*pc):ptmatch("abcdef")
(pc*pc*pc:Cmt(f3)*pc):ptmatch("abcdef")
(pc*pc*pc:Cmt(f4)*pc):ptmatch("abcdef")
(pc*pc*pc:Cmt(f5)*pc):ptmatch("abcdef")


# «lpeg-matchtime-suchthat»  (to ".lpeg-matchtime-suchthat")

* (eepitch-lua51)
* (eepitch-kill)
* (eepitch-lua51)
require "lpeg"
-- (find-angg "LUA/Code.lua" "Code-tests")

Code.__index.expr = function (c) return expr(c.code) end
Code.__index.suchthat_fmt = [[
    function (subj, pos, ...)
        local a,b = ...
        if a+b <= 3 then return true,... end
      end
  ]]
Code.suchthat = function (src)
    local c = Code.from(src)
    return c:setcode(c.suchthat_fmt)
  end

PP (Code.suchthat [[ a,b => a+b<=3 ]])
f = Code.suchthat [[ a,b => a+b<=3 ]]:expr()
PP(f("s", "p", 2,  0, 4))
PP(f("s", "p", 2, 10, 4))





#####
#
# Named group captures (in table captures)
# 2023apr10
#
#####

# «lpeg-named»  (to ".lpeg-named")
# http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg/lpeg.html#cap-g
# file:///usr/share/doc/lua-lpeg-dev/lpeg.html#cap-g
# (find-lpegmanual "#cap-c")
# (find-lpegmanual "#cap-g")

* (eepitch-lua51)
* (eepitch-kill)
* (eepitch-lua51)
require "lpeg"
B,C,P,R,S,V = lpeg.B,lpeg.C,lpeg.P,lpeg.R,lpeg.S,lpeg.V
Cb,Cc,Cf,Cg = lpeg.Cb,lpeg.Cc,lpeg.Cf,lpeg.Cg
Cp,Cs,Ct    = lpeg.Cp,lpeg.Cs,lpeg.Ct
Carg,Cmt    = lpeg.Carg,lpeg.Cmt
lpeg.ptmatch = function (pat, str) PP(pat:Ct():match(str)) end

-- Why ptmatch:
--
=  (Cc"a")                      :match("xyz")
=  (Cc"a" * Cc"b":Cg"c")        :match("xyz")
PP((Cc"a" * Cc"b":Cg"c"):Ct()   :match("xyz"))
   (Cc"a" * Cc"b":Cg"c")      :ptmatch("xyz")

-- A named capture can store a list of captures,
-- and we can retrieve that list with Cb(name):
--
(Cc("a","b")                              ) :ptmatch("xyz")
(Cc("a","b"):Cg"c"                        ) :ptmatch("xyz")
(Cc("a","b"):Cg"c" * Cb"c"                ) :ptmatch("xyz")
(Cc("a","b"):Cg"c" * Cb"c" * Cc(nil):Cg"c") :ptmatch("xyz")

-- ...but it can't store named captures.
-- Note that the "d"="c" disappears:
--
( Cc("a","b")*Cc"c":Cg"d"                               ) :ptmatch("xyz")
((Cc("a","b")*Cc"c":Cg"d"):Cg"e"                        ) :ptmatch("xyz")
((Cc("a","b")*Cc"c":Cg"d"):Cg"e" * Cb"e"                ) :ptmatch("xyz")
((Cc("a","b")*Cc"c":Cg"d"):Cg"e" * Cb"e" * Cc(nil):Cg"e") :ptmatch("xyz")



(Cc"a")   :ptmatch("xyz")

pa = Cs(P"a"^1):Cg("b")
pc = Cs(P"c"^1):Cg("d")
(pa * pc):ptmatch("aaacccc")




#####
#
# Unnamed group captures
# 2023sep08
#
#####

# «lpeg-unnamed»  (to ".lpeg-unnamed")

# http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg/lpeg.html#cap-g
# file:///usr/share/doc/lua-lpeg-dev/lpeg.html#cap-g
# http://lua-users.org/wiki/LpegTutorial
# (find-lpegmanual "#cap-c")
# (find-lpegmanual "#cap-g")

* (eepitch-lua51)
* (eepitch-kill)
* (eepitch-lua51)
require "lpeg"
B,C,P,R,S,V = lpeg.B,lpeg.C,lpeg.P,lpeg.R,lpeg.S,lpeg.V
Cb,Cc,Cf,Cg = lpeg.Cb,lpeg.Cc,lpeg.Cf,lpeg.Cg
Cp,Cs,Ct    = lpeg.Cp,lpeg.Cs,lpeg.Ct
Carg,Cmt    = lpeg.Carg,lpeg.Cmt
lpeg.pm     = function (pat, str) PP(pat:match(str or "")) end

char   = C(1)
char2  = C(1)*C(1)
char2g = Cg(C(1)*C(1))
f      = function (...) return "("..table.concat({...}, ",")..")" end

(char   * char  ^0):Cf(f):pm("abcde")   --> "((((a,b),c),d),e)"
(char   * char2 ^0):Cf(f):pm("abcde")   --> "((((a,b),c),d),e)"
(char   * char2g^0):Cf(f):pm("abcde")   --> "((a,b,c),d,e)"
(char2g * char2g^0):Cf(f):pm("abcdef")  --> "((a,c,d),e,f)"

(char   * char  ^0):Ct():pm("abcde")    --> {1="a", 2="b", 3="c", 4="d", 5="e"}
(char   * char2 ^0):Ct():pm("abcde")    --> {1="a", 2="b", 3="c", 4="d", 5="e"}
(char   * char2g^0):Ct():pm("abcde")    --> {1="a", 2="b", 3="c", 4="d", 5="e"}
(char2g * char2g^0):Ct():pm("abcdef")   --> {1="a", 2="b", 3="c", 4="d", 5="e", 6="f"}

((char   * char  ^0) / 2):pm("abcde")   --> "b"
((char   * char2 ^0) / 2):pm("abcde")   --> "b"
((char   * char2g^0) / 2):pm("abcde")   --> "b"
((char2g * char2g^0) / 2):pm("abcdef")  --> "b"




#####
#
# lpeg-unnamed-email
# 2023sep08
#
#####

# «lpeg-unnamed-email»  (to ".lpeg-unnamed-email")
# A question about lpeg.Cg() and anonymous groups
# http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2023-09/msg00017.html Edrx 1
# http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2023-09/msg00022.html Roberto 2

Hi list,

I was trying to understand what exactly lpeg.Cg does when it creates
anyonymous group captures and I found something weird... well, at
least on lpeg-1.0.2, but let me ask it anyway.

This is the code; PP is my favorite pretty-printing function and the
results of the tests are after the "-->"s:

  require "lpeg"
  B,C,P,R,S,V = lpeg.B,lpeg.C,lpeg.P,lpeg.R,lpeg.S,lpeg.V
  Cb,Cc,Cf,Cg = lpeg.Cb,lpeg.Cc,lpeg.Cf,lpeg.Cg
  Cp,Cs,Ct    = lpeg.Cp,lpeg.Cs,lpeg.Ct
  Carg,Cmt    = lpeg.Carg,lpeg.Cmt
  lpeg.pm     = function (pat, str) PP(pat:match(str or "")) end

  char   = C(1)
  char2  = C(1)*C(1)
  char2g = Cg(C(1)*C(1))
  f      = function (...) return "("..table.concat({...}, ",")..")" end

  (char   * char  ^0):pm("abcde")         --> "a" "b" "c" "d" "e"
  (char   * char2 ^0):pm("abcde")         --> "a" "b" "c" "d" "e"
  (char   * char2g^0):pm("abcde")         --> "a" "b" "c" "d" "e"
  (char2g * char2g^0):pm("abcdef")        --> "a" "b" "c" "d" "e" "f"

  (char   * char  ^0):Cf(f):pm("abcde")   --> "((((a,b),c),d),e)"
  (char   * char2 ^0):Cf(f):pm("abcde")   --> "((((a,b),c),d),e)"
  (char   * char2g^0):Cf(f):pm("abcde")   --> "((a,b,c),d,e)"
  (char2g * char2g^0):Cf(f):pm("abcdef")  --> "((a,c,d),e,f)"

  (char   * char  ^0):Ct():pm("abcde")    --> {1="a", 2="b", 3="c", 4="d", 5="e"}
  (char   * char2 ^0):Ct():pm("abcde")    --> {1="a", 2="b", 3="c", 4="d", 5="e"}
  (char   * char2g^0):Ct():pm("abcde")    --> {1="a", 2="b", 3="c", 4="d", 5="e"}
  (char2g * char2g^0):Ct():pm("abcdef")   --> {1="a", 2="b", 3="c", 4="d", 5="e", 6="f"}

  ((char   * char  ^0) / 2):pm("abcde")   --> "b"
  ((char   * char2 ^0) / 2):pm("abcde")   --> "b"
  ((char   * char2g^0) / 2):pm("abcde")   --> "b"
  ((char2g * char2g^0) / 2):pm("abcdef")  --> "b"

Some of the patterns at the left in the tests above produce

  "a" "b" "c" "d" "e"

as five separate captures, some produce them as "a" plus two captures
with two values each, grouped like this,

  "a" ("b" "c") ("d" "e")

and some produce three captures with two values each, grouped like
this:

  ("a" "b") ("c" "d") ("e" "f")

and apparently only lpeg.Cf() distinguishes all these cases... I
couldn't find anything else, besides lpeg.Cf(), that would _not_
coerce the three cases above into five or six separate captures.

Are there other ways - besides lpeg.Cf() - to access the captures
while they are still in this form,

  "a" ("b" "c") ("d" "e")

or

  ("a" "b") ("c" "d") ("e" "f"),

before the groups are unpacked?

Thanks in advance...
  Eduardo Ochs
  http://anggtwu.net/luaforth.html




#####
#
# Back captures
# 2023apr12
#
#####

# «lpeg-back»  (to ".lpeg-back")
# (find-lpegmanual "#cap-b")
# (find-lpegmanual "#cap-func")
# http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2023-04/msg00022.html Edrx 1
# http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2023-04/msg00023.html Sean 2
# http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2023-04/msg00024.html Andrew 3
# http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2023-04/msg00025.html Edrx 4

* (eepitch-lua51)
* (eepitch-kill)
* (eepitch-lua51)
require "lpeg"
B,C,P,R,S,V = lpeg.B,lpeg.C,lpeg.P,lpeg.R,lpeg.S,lpeg.V
Cb,Cc,Cf,Cg = lpeg.Cb,lpeg.Cc,lpeg.Cf,lpeg.Cg
Cp,Cs,Ct    = lpeg.Cp,lpeg.Cs,lpeg.Ct
Carg,Cmt    = lpeg.Carg,lpeg.Cmt
lpeg.ptmatch = function (pat, str) PP(pat:Ct():match(str)) end

PP {a="b", 10, 20}

f = function (a,b) return a..b,b..a end

((Cc"a" * Cc"b"    )                          ):ptmatch("ccc")
((Cc"a" * Cc"b" / f)                          ):ptmatch("ccc")
((Cc"a" * Cc"b" / f):Cg"c"                    ):ptmatch("ccc")
((Cc"a" * Cc"b" / f):Cg"c" *  Cb"c"           ):ptmatch("ccc")
((Cc"a" * Cc"b" / f):Cg"c" * (Cb"c" / 2)      ):ptmatch("ccc")
((Cc"a" * Cc"b" / f):Cg"c" * (Cb"c" / 2):Cg"d"):ptmatch("ccc")



Whoa!!!

That's brilliant! I didn't know that a back capture could store
several values! Many thanks! =) =) =)
  Cheers,
    Eduardo Ochs


# https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#sent/KtbxLxGvZCkGlJlGFcrrLhVBBLMndzBllq
Lpeg: a question about function captures and named captures

Hi list,

if anyone wants a short version of my question, here it is...
when we use function captures in lpeg - i.e., this thing,

  http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg/lpeg.html#cap-func

the "f" in patt/f receives "numbered captures" and returns "numbered
captures". Is there a way to write something similar to that returns
named captures?

Now here is a clearer version of that question, with code. In the code
below PP is my favorite pretty-printing function. It is defined in my
init file, and it prints tables like this:

  > PP {a="b", 10, 20}
   {1=10, 2=20, "a"="b"}
  > 

There's even a way to configure it to make it print tables like this,

  > PP {a="b", 10, 20}
   {[1]=10, [2]=20, ["a"]="b"}
  > 

but I don't use it much. Anyway, here is the code:

  require "lpeg"
  B,C,P,R,S,V = lpeg.B,lpeg.C,lpeg.P,lpeg.R,lpeg.S,lpeg.V
  Cb,Cc,Cf,Cg = lpeg.Cb,lpeg.Cc,lpeg.Cf,lpeg.Cg
  Cp,Cs,Ct    = lpeg.Cp,lpeg.Cs,lpeg.Ct
  Carg,Cmt    = lpeg.Carg,lpeg.Cmt
  
  lpeg.ptmatch = function (pat, str) PP(pat:Ct():match(str)) end
  
  PP {a="b", 10, 20}
  
  f = function (a,b) return a..b,b..a end
  
  (Cc"a" * Cc"b")           :ptmatch("ccc")
  (Cc"a" * Cc"b" / f)       :ptmatch("ccc")
  (Cc"a" * Cc"b" / f):Cg"c" :ptmatch("ccc")
  (Cc"a" * Cc"b" / f):Cg(3) :ptmatch("ccc")

If I run it one line at a time in a REPL I get this:

  Lua 5.1.5  Copyright (C) 1994-2012 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
  > require "lpeg"
  > B,C,P,R,S,V = lpeg.B,lpeg.C,lpeg.P,lpeg.R,lpeg.S,lpeg.V
  > Cb,Cc,Cf,Cg = lpeg.Cb,lpeg.Cc,lpeg.Cf,lpeg.Cg
  > Cp,Cs,Ct    = lpeg.Cp,lpeg.Cs,lpeg.Ct
  > Carg,Cmt    = lpeg.Carg,lpeg.Cmt
  > 
  > lpeg.ptmatch = function (pat, str) PP(pat:Ct():match(str)) end
  > 
  > PP {a="b", 10, 20}
   {1=10, 2=20, "a"="b"}
  > 
  > f = function (a,b) return a..b,b..a end
  > 
  > (Cc"a" * Cc"b")           :ptmatch("ccc")
   {1="a", 2="b"}
  > (Cc"a" * Cc"b" / f)       :ptmatch("ccc")
   {1="ab", 2="ba"}
  > (Cc"a" * Cc"b" / f):Cg"c" :ptmatch("ccc")
   {"c"="ab"}
  > (Cc"a" * Cc"b" / f):Cg(3) :ptmatch("ccc")
   {3="ab"}
  > 

How do I modify the ".../f" above to make it put the first result of f
into :Cg"c" and the second result into :Cg"d"?

Thanks in advance!
  Eduardo Ochs
  http://anggtwu.net/luaforth.html


* (eepitch-lua51)
* (eepitch-kill)
* (eepitch-lua51)
require "lpeg"
B,C,P,R,S,V = lpeg.B,lpeg.C,lpeg.P,lpeg.R,lpeg.S,lpeg.V
Cb,Cc,Cf,Cg = lpeg.Cb,lpeg.Cc,lpeg.Cf,lpeg.Cg
Cp,Cs,Ct    = lpeg.Cp,lpeg.Cs,lpeg.Ct
Carg,Cmt    = lpeg.Carg,lpeg.Cmt

lpeg.ptmatch = function (pat, str) PP(pat:Ct():match(str)) end

PP {a="b", 10, 20}

f = function (a,b) return a..b,b..a end

(Cc"a" * Cc"b")           :ptmatch("ccc")
(Cc"a" * Cc"b" / f)       :ptmatch("ccc")
(Cc"a" * Cc"b" / f):Cg"c" :ptmatch("ccc")
(Cc"a" * Cc"b" / f):Cg(3) :ptmatch("ccc")




#####
#
# lpeg.Carg(n) returns the n-th extra argument to :match
# 2023nov15
#
#####

# «lpeg-Carg»  (to ".lpeg-Carg")
# (find-es "lpeg" "globals")
# (find-lpegmanual "#f-match")
# (find-lpegmanual "#cap-arg")
# (find-lpegmanual "#cap-arg" "Creates an argument capture")

* (eepitch-lua51)
* (eepitch-kill)
* (eepitch-lua51)
require "lpeg"
B,C,P,R,S,V = lpeg.B,lpeg.C,lpeg.P,lpeg.R,lpeg.S,lpeg.V
Cb,Cc,Cf,Cg = lpeg.Cb,lpeg.Cc,lpeg.Cf,lpeg.Cg
Cp,Cs,Ct    = lpeg.Cp,lpeg.Cs,lpeg.Ct
Carg,Cmt    = lpeg.Carg,lpeg.Cmt

lpeg.pm = function (pat,subj,init,...) PP(pat:match(subj,init,...)) end
(Carg(1)*Carg(2)) :pm("foo", nil, 20, 30)





#####
#
# re-quickref
# 2021sep04
#
#####

# «re-quickref»  (to ".re-quickref")
# file:///usr/share/doc/lua-lpeg-dev/lpeg.html
# file:///usr/share/doc/lua-lpeg-dev/lpeg.html#cap-t lpeg.Ct
# file:///usr/share/doc/lua-lpeg-dev/re.html
# http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg/
# http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg/lpeg.html
# http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg/re.html
# (find-angg "LUA/Re.lua" "Re-tests")
# (find-lpegremanual "")
# (find-fline "/usr/share/lua/5.1/re.lua")

 Syntax           Description
 ======           ===========
 ( p )            grouping
 'string'         literal string
 "string"         literal string
 [class]          character class
 .                any character
 %name            pattern defs[name] or a pre-defined pattern
 name             non terminal
 <name>           non terminal
 {}               position capture
 { p }            simple capture
 {: p :}          anonymous group capture
 {:name: p :}     named group capture
 {~ p ~}          substitution capture
 {| p |}          table capture
 =name            back reference
 p ?              optional match
 p *              zero or more repetitions
 p +              one or more repetitions
 p^num            exactly n repetitions
 p^+num           at least n repetitions
 p^-num           at most n repetitions
 p -> 'string'    string capture
 p -> "string"    string capture
 p -> num         numbered capture
 p -> name        function/query/string capture equivalent to p / defs[name]
 p => name        match-time capture equivalent to lpeg.Cmt(p, defs[name])
 p ~> name        fold capture equivalent to lpeg.Cf(p, defs[name])
 & p              and predicate
 ! p              not predicate
 p1 p2            concatenation
 p1 / p2          ordered choice
 (name <- p)+     grammar





#####
#
# Re: a class for testing and learning lpeg.re
# 2021sep27
#
#####

# «Re»  (to ".Re")
# (find-angg "LUA/Re.lua")
# (find-angg "LUA/Re.lua" "arit2-output")
# Superseded by:
#   (to "lpegrex")
#   (find-angg "LUA/ELpeg1.lua")
#   (find-angg "LUA/Re2.lua")




#####
#
# Re-balanced
# 2021oct23
#
#####

# «Re-balanced»  (to ".Re-balanced")

* (eepitch-lua51)
* (eepitch-kill)
* (eepitch-lua51)
re = require "re"

gram = [=[
  a <- [^()]+ / ("(" a* ")")
  b <- {~ "("->"" a* ")"->"" ~}
]=]

gram = [=[
  a     <- [^{}]+ / ("{" a* "}")
  ac    <- ("{" { a* } "}")
  act   <- ac -> leantranslate
  actc  <- {~ ""->"{" act ""->"}" ~}
  acc   <- {~ ""->"{" ac  ""->"}" ~}
  tac   <- {~ "\tac"  actc ac     ~}
  lean  <- {~ "\lean" actc        ~}
  tex   <- {~ ""->"$" a   ""->"$" ~}
  all   <- tac / lean / tex
  alle  <- all !.
]=]

defs = { leantranslate = function (str) return "."..str.."." end }

rtg = Re { print = PP, grammar = gram, defs = defs }
rtg:cc 'top <- all'  [=[ foo   ]=]
rtg:cc 'top <- all'  [=[ foo } ]=]
rtg:cc 'top <- alle' [=[ foo } ]=]
rtg:cc 'top <- alle' [=[ foo   ]=]
rtg:cc 'top <- alle' [=[\tac{a}{bc}]=]
rtg:cc 'top <- alle' [=[\tac{a}{b} ]=]
rtg:cc 'top <- alle' [=[\lean{abcd}]=]




#####
#
# A modified version of re.lua, in eoo style
# 2023mar17
#
#####

# «eoo-re»  (to ".eoo-re")
# Better version: (find-angg "LUA/Re2.lua")
# (find-sh "locate /re.lua")

/home/edrx/LATEX/dednat6/re.lua
/home/edrx/dednat6/dednat6/re.lua
/home/edrx/usrc/LuLPeg/src/re.lua
/home/edrx/usrc/lpeg-1.0.2/re.lua

# (find-fline "/usr/share/lua/5.1/re.lua")
# (find-fline "/usr/share/lua/5.2/re.lua")
# (find-fline "/usr/share/lua/5.3/re.lua")



#####
#
# The post that inspired PegDebug
# 2023mar30
#
#####

# «pegdebug0»  (to ".pegdebug0")
# http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2009-10/msg00774.html

for k, p in pairs(grammar) do
  local enter = lpeg.Cmt(lpeg.P(true), function(s, p, ...)
      print("ENTER", k) return p end);
  local leave = lpeg.Cmt(lpeg.P(true), function(s, p, ...)
      print("LEAVE", k) return p end) * (lpeg.P("k") - lpeg.P "k");
  grammar[k] = lpeg.Cmt(enter * p + leave, function(s, p, ...)
      print("---", k, "---") print(p, s:sub(1, p-1)) return p end)
end

for k, p in pairs(grammar) do
  local fenter = function(s, p, ...) print("ENTER", k); return p end
  local fleave = function(s, p, ...) print("LEAVE", k); return p end
  local fclose = function(s, p, ...)
      print("---", k, "---")
      print(p, s:sub(1, p-1))
      return p
    end
  local ptrue  = lpeg.P(true)
  local phack  = lpeg.P("k") - lpeg.P("k")
  local penter = ptrue:Cmt(fenter)
  local pleave = ptrue:Cmt(fleave) * phack
  grammar[k] = (penter*p+pleave):Cmt(fclose)
end




#####
#
# pegdebug
# 2014sep23
#
#####

# «pegdebug» (to ".pegdebug")
# https://github.com/pkulchenko/PegDebug
# http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2009-10/msg00774.html
# http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2014-09/msg00119.html
# (find-git-links "https://github.com/pkulchenko/PegDebug" "pegdebug")
# (code-c-d "pegdebug" "~/usrc/PegDebug/")
# (find-pegdebugfile "")
# (find-pegdebugfile "README.md")
# (find-pegdebugfile "src/pegdebug.lua")
# (find-pegdebugfile "src/pegdebug.lua" "grammar[k] = enter * p * eq + leave")

* (eepitch-lua51)
* (eepitch-kill)
* (eepitch-lua51)
Path.prepend("path", "~/usrc/PegDebug/src/?.lua")

lpeg     = require('lpeg')
pegdebug = require('pegdebug')

grammar = pegdebug.trace({
  "List",
  NonNumber = lpeg.R('az'),
  Number    = lpeg.R"09"^1 / tonumber,
  List      = lpeg.V("NonNumber")
            + lpeg.V("Number")
            * ("," * lpeg.V("Number"))^0;
})
print(lpeg.match(lpeg.P(grammar), "10,30,43"))

PPPV(grammar)

PPPV {"list"; a=11; b=12}



#####
#
# LpegDebug: my rewrite of pegdebug into a more REPL-friendly format
# 2023apr01
#
#####

# «LpegDebug»  (to ".LpegDebug")
# (find-angg "LUA/Gram2.lua" "LpegDebug")




#####
#
# lulpeg
# 2022mar06
#
#####

# «lulpeg»  (to ".lulpeg")
# https://github.com/pygy/LuLPeg
# (find-git-links "https://github.com/pygy/LuLPeg" "lulpeg")
# (code-c-d "lulpeg" "~/usrc/LuLPeg/")
# (find-lulpegfile "")
# (find-lulpegfile "README.md")
# (find-lulpegfile "lulpeg.lua")
# (find-lulpegfile "src/")
# (find-lulpegfile "src/datastructures.lua")

* (eepitch-lua51)
* (eepitch-kill)
* (eepitch-lua51)
-- Path.prepend("path", "~/usrc/LuLPeg/src/?.lua")
Path.prepend   ("path", "~/usrc/LuLPeg/?.lua")
lulpeg  = require "lulpeg"
re      = lulpeg.re
pattern = lulpeg.C(lulpeg.P"A" + "B") ^ 0
print(pattern:match"ABA") --> "A" "B" "A"


# (find-fline "~/LOGS/2022mar05.fennel")




#####
#
# lpeglabel
# 2022mar06
#
#####

# «lpeglabel»  (to ".lpeglabel")
# https://github.com/sqmedeiros/lpeglabel
# (find-git-links "https://github.com/sqmedeiros/lpeglabel" "lpeglabel")
# (code-pdf-page "lpeglabel" "~/tmp/lpeglabel.pdf")
# (code-pdf-text "lpeglabel" "~/tmp/lpeglabel.pdf")
# (code-c-d      "lpeglabel" "~/usrc/lpeglabel/")
# (find-lpeglabelpage)
# (find-lpeglabeltext)
# (find-lpeglabelpage 2 "lpeglabel.T (l)")
# (find-lpeglabeltext 2 "lpeglabel.T (l)")
# (find-lpeglabelfile "")
# (find-lpeglabelfile "README.md")
# (find-lpeglabelfile "makefile")
# (find-sh "locate lua.h | grep '.h$'")
# (find-fline "/usr/include/lua5.1/" "lua.h")
# (find-fline "/usr/include/lua5.2/" "lua.h")
# (find-fline "/usr/include/lua5.3/" "lua.h")

* (eepitch-shell)
* (eepitch-kill)
* (eepitch-shell)
cd ~/usrc/lpeglabel/

git clean -dfx
git reset --hard

make LUADIR=/usr/include/lua5.2
# make LUADIR=/usr/include/lua5.3



* (eepitch-lua52)
* (eepitch-kill)
* (eepitch-lua52)
loadlpegrex()
m = require'lpeglabel'

function matchPrint(p, s)
  local r, lab, errpos = p:match(s)
  print("r: ", r, "lab: ", lab, "errpos: ", errpos)
end

p = m.P"a"^0 * m.P"b" + m.P"c"
matchPrint(p, "abc") --> r: 3   lab: nil  errpos: nil
matchPrint(p, "c")   --> r: 2   lab: nil  errpos: nil
matchPrint(p, "aac") --> r: nil lab: fail errpos: 3
matchPrint(p, "xxc") --> r: nil lab: fail errpos: 1



#####
#
# lpegrex
# 2022mar06
#
#####

# «lpegrex»  (to ".lpegrex")
# (find-angg ".emacs" "lpegrex")
# (find-es "lua5" "nelua")
# (find-angg "LUA/lua50init.lua" "loadlpegrex")
# (find-angg "LUA/LpegRex1.lua")
# (find-angg "LUA/LpegRex2.lua")
# (find-angg "LUA/Lisp3.lua")
# (find-angggrep "grep --color=auto -nH --null -e lpegrex LUA/*.lua")
# https://github.com/edubart/lpegrex
# https://github.com/edubart/lpegrex/blob/main/parsers/lua.lua
# (find-git-links "https://github.com/edubart/lpegrex" "lpegrex")
# (find-fline "~/LOGS/2022mar05.fennel" "lpegrex")
# (code-pdf-page "lpegrex" "~/tmp/lpegrex.pdf")
# (code-pdf-text "lpegrex" "~/tmp/lpegrex.pdf")
# (code-c-d      "lpegrex" "~/usrc/lpegrex/")
# (find-lpegrexpage)
# (find-lpegrextext)
# (find-lpegrexpage 2 "AST Nodes" "NodeName <== patt")
# (find-lpegrextext 2 "AST Nodes" "NodeName <== patt")
# (find-lpegrexpage 7 "Expected_name")
# (find-lpegrextext 7 "Expected_name")
# (find-lpegrexfile "")
# (find-lpegrexfile "lpegrex.lua")
# (find-lpegrexfile "lpegrex.lua" "function expect(")
# (find-lpegrexfile "parsers/")
# (find-lpegrexfile "parsers/csv.lua")
# (find-lpegrexfile "parsers/lua.lua")
# (find-lpegrexfile "parsers/lua.lua" "expror")
# (find-lpegrexfile "tests/")
# (find-lpegrexfile "tests/csv-test.lua")
# (find-lpegrexfile "examples/lua-ast.lua")

* (eepitch-lua52)
* (eepitch-kill)
* (eepitch-lua52)
Path.prepend("path",  "~/usrc/lpeglabel/?.lua")
Path.prepend("cpath", "~/usrc/lpeglabel/?.so")
Path.prepend("path",  "~/usrc/lpegrex/?.lua")
require "lpegrex"
require "tests/csv-test"
arg =  {"/home/edrx/usrc/lpegrex/examples/lua-ast.lua"}
require "examples/lua-ast"

* (eepitch-lua52)
* (eepitch-kill)
* (eepitch-lua52)
Path.prepend("path",  "~/usrc/lpeglabel/?.lua")
Path.prepend("cpath", "~/usrc/lpeglabel/?.so")
Path.prepend("path",  "~/usrc/lpegrex/?.lua")
lpegrex = require "lpegrex"

Grammar = [==[
  top           <-- plusexpr
  plusexpr      <-| timesexpr ({"+"} timesexpr)*
  timesexpr     <-| norp      ({"*"} norp)*
  norp          <-| num     / ("(" plusexpr ")") 
  num           <-- {%d}
]==]

patt = lpegrex.compile(Grammar)
bigstr = "(1+2)*3"
ast, errlabel, errpos = patt:match(bigstr)
PPPV(ast, errlabel, errpos)



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# lpegrex-keywords
# 2023mar30
#
#####

# «lpegrex-keywords»  (to ".lpegrex-keywords")
# (find-lpegrexpage 2 "matching unique keywords" "`for`")
# (find-lpegrextext 2 "matching unique keywords" "`for`")
# (find-lpegrexpage 3 "Match keyword")
# (find-lpegrextext 3 "Match keyword")
# (find-lpegrexpage 6 "Matching keywords and tokens")
# (find-lpegrextext 6 "Matching keywords and tokens")
# (find-lpegrexpage 6 "Capturing identifier names")
# (find-lpegrextext 6 "Capturing identifier names")
# (find-lpegrexfile "")
# (find-lpegrexfile "README.md")
# https://github.com/edubart/lpegrex
# https://github.com/edubart/lpegrex#matching-keywords-and-tokens




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# lpegrex-json
# 2023jan05
#
#####

# «lpegrex-json»  (to ".lpegrex-json")
# (find-lpegrexfile "README.md" "parsing JSON into an AST")
# (find-lpegrexfile "README.md" "Quick References")

* (eepitch-lua52)
* (eepitch-kill)
* (eepitch-lua52)
-- local lpegrex = require 'lpegrex'
Path.prepend("path",  "~/usrc/lpeglabel/?.lua")
Path.prepend("cpath", "~/usrc/lpeglabel/?.so")
Path.prepend("path",  "~/usrc/lpegrex/?.lua")
lpegrex = require 'lpegrex'

patt = lpegrex.compile([[
Json          <-- SKIP (Object / Array) (!.)^UnexpectedSyntax
Object        <== `{` (Member (`,` @Member)*)? @`}`
Array         <== `[` (Value (`,` @Value)*)? @`]`
Member        <== String `:` @Value
Value         <-- String / Number / Object / Array / Boolean / Null
String        <-- '"' {~ ('\' -> '' @ESCAPE / !'"' .)* ~} @'"' SKIP
Number        <-- {[+-]? (%d+ '.'? %d+? / '.' %d+) ([eE] [+-]? %d+)?} -> tonumber SKIP
Boolean       <-- `false` -> tofalse / `true` -> totrue
Null          <-- `null` -> tonil
ESCAPE        <-- [\/"] / ('b' $8 / 't' $9 / 'n' $10 / 'f' $12 / 'r' $13 / 'u' {%x^4} $16) -> tochar
SKIP          <-- %s*
NAME_SUFFIX   <-- [_%w]+
]])

source = '[{"string":"some\\ntext", "boolean":true, "number":-1.5e+2, "null":null}]'
source = '[{"string":"sometext",  "boolean":"true", "number":-1.5e+2, "null":null}]'

ast, errlabel, errpos = patt:match(source)
if not ast then
  local lineno, colno, line = lpegrex.calcline(source, errpos)
  local colhelp = string.rep(' ', colno-1)..'^'
  error('syntax error: '..lineno..':'..colno..': '..errlabel..
        '\n'..line..'\n'..colhelp)
end
-- `ast` should be a table with the JSON
print('JSON parsed with success!')

PP(ast)
= SynTree.from(ast)


-- {1={1={1="string", 2="some text", "endpos"=24, "pos"=3, "tag"="Member"},
--     2={1="boolean", 2=<true>, "endpos"=40, "pos"=26, "tag"="Member"},
--     3={1="number", 2=-150, "endpos"=58, "pos"=42, "tag"="Member"},
--     4={1="null", "endpos"=71, "pos"=60, "tag"="Member"},
--     "endpos"=72, "pos"=2, "tag"="Object"},
--  "endpos"=73, "pos"=1, "tag"="Array"}



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# lpegrex: the "tag" field in __options
# 2023jan19
#
#####

# «lpegrex-tag»  (to ".lpegrex-tag")
# (find-lpegrexfile "README.md" "## Quick References")
# (find-lpegrexfile "README.md" "## Quick References" "Capture tagged node")
# (find-lpegrexfile "lpegrex.lua")
# (find-lpegrexfile "lpegrex.lua" "TaggedNodeDefinition =")
# (find-lpegrexfile "lpegrex.lua" "TaggedNodeDefinition =" "makenode")
# (find-lpegrexfile "lpegrex.lua" "local function makenode(")
# (find-lpegrexgrep "grep --color=auto -nH --null -e options * */*")
# (find-lpegrexfile "tests/lpegrex-test.lua" "__options={tag=")

* (eepitch-lua52)
* (eepitch-kill)
* (eepitch-lua52)
Path.prepend("path",  "~/usrc/lpeglabel/?.lua")
Path.prepend("cpath", "~/usrc/lpeglabel/?.so")
Path.prepend("path",  "~/usrc/lpegrex/?.lua")
lpegrex = require 'lpegrex'

c = lpegrex.compile([[
    chunk <-- num
    num:Number <== {%d+} %s*
  ]], {__options={
         tag=function(name, node)
           node.mytag = name
           return node
         end}
      }
  )

PPV(c:match("1234"))



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# lpegrex-grammar
# 2023jan21
#
#####

# «lpegrex-grammar»  (to ".lpegrex-grammar")
# https://github.com/edubart/lpegrex/issues/4



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# folding
# 2022mar08
#
#####

# «folding»  (to ".folding")
# http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg/lpeg.html

lpeg.Cf(patt, func)    a folding of the captures from patt

Creates a fold capture. If patt produces a list of captures C1 C2 ...
Cn, this capture will produce the value func(...func(func(C1, C2),
C3)..., Cn), that is, it will fold (or accumulate, or reduce) the
captures from patt using function func.





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#
# lpeg-table-captures
# 2022mar21
#
#####

# «lpeg-table-captures»  (to ".lpeg-table-captures")
# file:///usr/share/doc/lua-lpeg-dev/lpeg.html

* (eepitch-lua51)
* (eepitch-kill)
* (eepitch-lua51)
require "lpeg"
= mapconcat(id, sorted(keys(lpeg)), " ")

B,C,P,R,S,V = lpeg.B,lpeg.C,lpeg.P,lpeg.R,lpeg.S,lpeg.V
Cb,Cc,Cf,Cg = lpeg.Cb,lpeg.Cc,lpeg.Cf,lpeg.Cg
Cp,Cs,Ct    = lpeg.Cp,lpeg.Cs,lpeg.Ct
Carg,Cmt    = lpeg.Carg,lpeg.Cmt

=   Cc("AA")                          :match("abcd")
PP((Cc("AA")                    )     :match("abcd"))
PP((Cc("AA") * Cc("BB")         )     :match("abcd"))
PP((Cc("AA") * Cc("BB")         ):Ct():match("abcd"))
PP((Cc("AA") * Cc("BB"):Cg("CC")):Ct():match("abcd"))
PP((Cc("AA") * Cc( 22 ):Cg( 33 )):Ct():match("abcd"))

extrafields = P("")
extrafields = Cc(22):Cg(33) * Cc(44):Cg(55)
PP((Cc("AA") * extrafields):Ct():match("abcd"))

extrafields = P("")
PP((Cc("AA") * extrafields):Ct():match("abcd"))




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# Processing my chat with Tatiana (2018)
# 2022mar22
#
#####

# «tati-2018»  (to ".tati-2018")
# (find-fline "~/TH/2016-t.blogme")
# (find-fline "~/TH/2016-t.blogme" 331)
# (find-fline "~/TH/2016-t.blogme" 428)
# (find-TH "2018-t")

* (eepitch-lua51)
* (eepitch-kill)
* (eepitch-lua51)
require "lpeg"
require "re"

bigstr = ee_readfile "~/TH/2016-t.blogme"
bigstr2 = table.concat(splitlines(bigstr), "\n", 331, 428)
= bigstr2

tdn = re.compile [=[
  top  <- {| "[" time ", " date "] " name ": " |}
  time <- { [0-9:]+ }
  date <- { [0-9/]+ }
  name <- { "Eduardo Ochs" / "Tatiana Pequeno" }
]=]

PP(tdn:match(bigstr2))

patfalas = re.compile [=[
  top    <- {| tdnt * |}
  tdnt   <- {| tdn text |}
  tdn    <- ( "[" time ", " date "] " name ": " )
    time <- { [0-9:]+ }
    date <- { [0-9/]+ }
    name <- { "Eduardo Ochs" / "Tatiana Pequeno" }
  text   <- { ((!tdn) .)* }
]=]

falas = patfalas:match(bigstr2)
PPV(falas)

loadblogme3()
f = function (fala)
    local who = fala[3]:sub(1,1)..": "
    local who2 = BF(who)
    local text = fala[4]:gsub("\n$", "")
    local text2 = text:gsub("\n", "\n"..BR())
    return who2..text2
  end
= f(falas[3])

= mapconcat(f, falas, "\n"..BR())




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# railroad-diagrams
# 2023apr01
#
#####

# «railroad-diagrams»  (to ".railroad-diagrams")
# https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#search/lpegrex/FMfcgzGpGTDrQjqpxgTHJjHDpbdgcLSD
# https://www.bottlecaps.de/rr/ui
# https://www.bottlecaps.de/convert/
# https://www.bottlecaps.de/rex/




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# My questions on how to draw capture diagrams
# 2023aug13
#
#####

# «capts-question»  (to ".capts-question")
# (code-etex-tla "lc" "2023lpegcaptures")
# (find-LATEX "2023lpegcaptures.tex")
# http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2023-08/msg00041.html

Hi list,

I'm trying to learn how group captures in lpeg "really" work, and it
seems that they store data in a certain data structure - I will refer
to it as "Ltables", but this is obviously an improvised name - that
is between tables and lists of values...

In the examples below I will use my favorite pretty-printing function,
"PP", whose output is like this:

  PP(2, "3", {4, 5, a=6, [{7,8}]=9, [{7,8}]=10})
  --> 2 "3" {1=4, 2=5, "a"=6, {1=7, 2=8}=9, {1=7, 2=8}=10}

If we run this in a REPL,

  require "lpeg"
  B,C,P,R,S,V = lpeg.B,lpeg.C,lpeg.P,lpeg.R,lpeg.S,lpeg.V
  Cb,Cc,Cf,Cg = lpeg.Cb,lpeg.Cc,lpeg.Cf,lpeg.Cg
  Cp,Cs,Ct    = lpeg.Cp,lpeg.Cs,lpeg.Ct
  Carg,Cmt    = lpeg.Carg,lpeg.Cmt
  lpeg.pm     = function (pat, str) PP(pat:match(str or "")) end

  (Cc("a","b") * Cc("c","d"))                           :pm()
  (Cc("a","b") * Cc("c","d"):Cg"e")                     :pm()
  (Cc("a","b") * Cc("c","d"):Cg"e")                :Ct():pm()
  (Cc("a","b") * Cc("c","d"):Cg"e" * Cc"f")        :Ct():pm()
  (Cc("a","b") * Cc("c","d"):Cg"e" * Cc"f" * Cb"e"):Ct():pm()
  (Cc("a","b") * Cc("c","d"):Cg"e" * Cc"f" * Cb"e")     :pm()

we get this output:

  >   (Cc("a","b") * Cc("c","d"))                           :pm()
   "a" "b" "c" "d"
  >   (Cc("a","b") * Cc("c","d"):Cg"e")                     :pm()
   "a" "b"
  >   (Cc("a","b") * Cc("c","d"):Cg"e")                :Ct():pm()
   {1="a", 2="b", "e"="c"}
  >   (Cc("a","b") * Cc("c","d"):Cg"e" * Cc"f")        :Ct():pm()
   {1="a", 2="b", 3="f", "e"="c"}
  >   (Cc("a","b") * Cc("c","d"):Cg"e" * Cc"f" * Cb"e"):Ct():pm()
   {1="a", 2="b", 3="f", 4="c", 5="d", "e"="c"}
  >   (Cc("a","b") * Cc("c","d"):Cg"e" * Cc"f" * Cb"e")     :pm()
   "a" "b" "f" "c" "d"
  > 

If we define a table like this,

  {20, 30, a=40, a=50, 60}

then the second assignment to "a" will override the first one; lpeg.Cg
does something similar to that...

Let me use this notation for Ltables. This lpeg pattern

  Cc("a","b") * Cc("c","d"):Cg"e" * Cc"f"

matches the empty string, and returns this Ltable:

  {."a" "b" e={."c" "d".} "f".}

Ltables can be coerced both to tables, by lpeg.Ct, and to lists of
values. The output of

  (Cc("a","b") * Cc("c","d"):Cg"e" * Cc"f")             :pm()
  (Cc("a","b") * Cc("c","d"):Cg"e" * Cc"f")        :Ct():pm()
  (Cc("a","b") * Cc("c","d"):Cg"e" * Cc"f" * Cb"e"):Ct():pm()
  (Cc("a","b") * Cc("c","d"):Cg"e" * Cc"f" * Cb"e")     :pm()

is:

  >   (Cc("a","b") * Cc("c","d"):Cg"e" * Cc"f")             :pm()
   "a" "b" "f"
  >   (Cc("a","b") * Cc("c","d"):Cg"e" * Cc"f")        :Ct():pm()
   {1="a", 2="b", 3="f", "e"="c"}
  >   (Cc("a","b") * Cc("c","d"):Cg"e" * Cc"f" * Cb"e"):Ct():pm()
   {1="a", 2="b", 3="f", 4="c", 5="d", "e"="c"}
  >   (Cc("a","b") * Cc("c","d"):Cg"e" * Cc"f" * Cb"e")     :pm()
   "a" "b" "f" "c" "d"
  >

In my (current) way of thinking this lpeg pattern

  Cc("a","b") * Cc("c","d"):Cg"e" * Cc"f" * Cb"e"

returns this Ltable,

  {."a" "b" ["e"]={."c" "d".} "f" ["e"]}

where the ["e"]={."c" "d".} stores an Ltable in the entry with the key
"e" in the current Ltable, and the ["e"] at the end reads the value
stored in the key "e", coerces it to a list of values, and adds these
values to the current Ltable...


Questions:
==========
What is the official name of this data structure? Is there a place in
which it is described in more details than in the Lpeg manual? Where?
The Lpeg manual only talks about "most recent group capture", and it
says this:

  "Most recent means the last complete outermost group capture with
   the given name. A Complete capture means that the entire pattern
   corresponding to the capture has matched. An Outermost capture
   means that the capture is not inside another complete capture."

here:

  http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg/lpeg.html#cap-g
  http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg/lpeg.html#cap-b

I hope I'm not the only person who finds that too terse... and also,
is there anyone here - besides me - who have tried to draw diagrams to
understand how the operations on captures work? My current diagrams
are here:

  http://anggtwu.net/LATEX/2023lpegcaptures.pdf

Thanks in advance!...
  Eduardo Ochs
  http://anggtwu.net/luaforth.html




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#
# capts-question-2
# 2023aug15
#
#####

# «capts-question-2»  (to ".capts-question-2")
# http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2023-08/msg00048.html Roberto: there is no such
# http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2023-08/msg00053.html Edrx: I would draw this ... as

Hi Roberto,

I would draw this

  > require "lpeg"
  > f = function (a,b) return string.char(string.byte(a) + string.byte(b)) end
  > = ((lpeg.C(1) * lpeg.C(1)) / f):match("#$")
  G
  >

as this - switch to a monospaced font if needed:

   #   $
  \-/ \-/
  "#" "$"
  \-----/
    "G"

and here is a low-tech animation of how the submatches happen and what
they return:

   #   $    #   $    #   $     #   $ 
           \-/      \-/ \-/   \-/ \-/
           "#"      "#" "$"   "#" "$"
                              \-----/
                                "G"  
  
Here is a case that I find very strange... no, actually a case that is
simple to understand followed by one that I find very strange. Compare:

  > require "lpeg"
  > = ((lpeg.C(1):Cg"c" * lpeg.C(1):Cg"d") * lpeg.Cb"c"):match"ab"
  a
  > = (lpeg.C(1):Cg"c" * (lpeg.C(1):Cg"d" * lpeg.Cb"c")):match"ab"
  a
  >

= (lpeg.C(1):Cg"c" * (lpeg.C(1):Cg"d" * lpeg.Cb"x")):match"ab"

I draw them as this:

    a     b                a     b
  \---/ \---/ \---/      \---/ \---/ \---/
   "a"   "b"  ["c"]       "a"   "b"  ["c"]
  \---/ \---/            \---/ \---/
  c="a" d="b"            c="a" d="b"
  \---------/                  \---------/
  c="a" d="b"                  d="b" ["c"]
  \---------------/            \---------/
  c="a" d="b" ["c"]            not found? 
  \---------------/
  c="a" d="b"  "a"

Each ["c"] means "fetch the value associated to the key "c" and append
it to the current Ltable", and the lower underbrace in the first
diagram shows the moment in which that fetch happens and the ["c"] is
replaced by "a". The second diagram shows what I _expected_ that would
happen in the second match; I expected that in this subpattern

  (lpeg.C(1):Cg"d" * lpeg.Cb"c")

the lpeg.Cb"c" would look only at the "Cg"s that happen inside that
subpattern, and I would get an error like this one...

  stdin:1: back reference 'c' not found

...but I was wrong. I _guess_ that what is happening in the second
(...):match"ab" is this:

    a     b	    
  \---/ \---/ \---/
   "a"   "b"  ["c"]
  \---/ \---/	  
  c="a" d="b"	  
        \---------/
        d="b" ["c"]
  \---------------/
  c="a" d="b" ["c"]
  \---------------/
  c="a" d="b"  "a"

and the expansion ["c"] -> "a" is delayed as most as possible...

Anyway, I hope that these diagrams would make enough sense to the
people who can help me fix them, and who can help me fix my mental
model...

  Thanks in advance =S,
    Eduardo Ochs
    http://anggtwu.net/luaforth.html



(...)




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#
# Defining "subpatterns" by analogy
# 2023aug20
#
#####

# «capts-subpat-analogy»  (to ".capts-subpat-analogy")
# «associativity»  (to ".associativity")
# http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2023-08/msg00055.html Edrx: analogy

Hi Sean,

> I don't see these as different, due to the fact that
>
>         (a * b) * c     =       a * (b * c)

try this:

  foo = function (str) return setmetatable({str}, foo_mt) end
  foo_mt = {
    __tostring = function (a) return a[1] end,
    __mul = function (a,b) return foo(format("(%s%s)", a[1], b[1])) end,
  }
  = (foo"a" * foo"b") * foo"c"   --> "((ab)c)"
  = foo"a" * (foo"b" * foo"c")   --> "(a(bc))"

The associativity of the multiplication in Lua is not a "fact".

> These are expressions ... what's a "subpattern"?  Again,
>
>       (a * b) * c     =       a * (b * c)

Is that a honest question?

Here's a way to define subpatterns by analogy. We all know how to
build bigger expressions from basic expressions, and after learning
how to do that we all learned what are subexpressions, but most of us
never saw a formal definition of "subexpression". Similarly, we "all"
know what are basic (lpeg) patterns, and we "all" know how to build
bigger (lpeg) patterns from basic (lpeg) patters. Most of us know what
are sub-(lpeg)-patterns by analogy with subexpressions...

> For me, they cloud the issue. To me, a capture captures the text of
> a pattern, and possibly transforms it. For example:

Makes sense, but most of the lpeg patterns that _I_ wrote in the last
year or so transform the original text in ways that are very complex,
and most of the captures that appear in the intermediate steps of _my_
transformations are tables, ASTs, or numbers... and that's why _right
now_ _I_'m not interested in the basic cases in which lpeg captures
simply capture text and transform text - my priority now is to
understand some obscure features and corner cases...

  Cheers,
    Eduardo

(...)



# http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2023-08/msg00058.html Edrx: Mainly
# http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2023-08/msg00059.html Roberto: I really

Hi Roberto,

Mainly "last complete outermost group capture" and "immediate
evaluation of all its nested captures", in:

  lpeg.Cb (name)

  Creates a back capture. This pattern matches the empty string and
  produces the values produced by the most recent group capture named
  name (where name can be any Lua value).

  Most recent means the last complete outermost group capture with the
  given name. A Complete capture means that the entire pattern
  corresponding to the capture has matched. An Outermost capture means
  that the capture is not inside another complete capture.

  In the same way that LPeg does not specify when it evaluates
  captures, it does not specify whether it reuses values previously
  produced by the group or re-evaluates them.

  lpeg.Cmt(patt, function)

  Creates a match-time capture. Unlike all other captures, this one is
  evaluated immediately when a match occurs (even if it is part of a
  larger pattern that fails later). It forces the immediate evaluation
  of all its nested captures and then calls function.

Cheers =/,
  E.



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#
# A quirk with (Cb"c":Cg"c"):pm() and (Cb"c":Cg"c"):Ct():pm()
# 2023aug20
#
#####

# «capts-cbcgct»  (to ".capts-cbcgct")
# http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2023-08/msg00077.html Edrx
# http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2023-08/msg00091.html Roberto

Hi Roberto,

I gave a mini-presentation/mini-workshop about my diagrams to two
friends yesterday and they liked it very much - so now there are at
least two people besides me who think that they are useful, and that's
more than enough...

Anyway, in the code below the tests C1..C3 and D1..D4 are based in
your examples. In the block D1..D4 only D4 yields an error, and that
makes sense to me - but in the block C1..C3 the tests C1 and C3 yield
errors but C2 does not. Is this behavior of C1..C3 something that is
explained in the documentation? How? I admit that I'm still struggling
with some terms, sorry...

The code:

  require "lpeg"
  B,C,P,R,S,V = lpeg.B,lpeg.C,lpeg.P,lpeg.R,lpeg.S,lpeg.V
  Cb,Cc,Cf,Cg = lpeg.Cb,lpeg.Cc,lpeg.Cf,lpeg.Cg
  Cp,Cs,Ct    = lpeg.Cp,lpeg.Cs,lpeg.Ct
  Carg,Cmt    = lpeg.Carg,lpeg.Cmt
  lpeg.pm     = function (pat, str) PP(pat:match(str or "")) end

  pat1234     = Cc(10, 20) * Cc(30, 40):Cg"a"
  pat5678     = Cc(50, 60) * Cc(70, 80):Cg"a"

  (pat1234                            )     :pm()    -- A1
  (pat1234                            ):Ct():pm()    -- A2
  (pat1234          * pat5678         ):Ct():pm()    -- A3
  (pat1234 *  Cb"a" * pat5678  * Cb"a"):Ct():pm()    -- A4
  (pat1234 * (Cb"a" * pat5678) * Cb"a"):Ct():pm()    -- A5

  (pat1234              ):Ct():pm()         -- B1
  (pat1234:Cg"b"        ):Ct():pm()         -- B2
  (pat1234:Cg"b" * Cb"b"):Ct():pm()         -- B3

  (Cb"c"      )     :pm()                   -- C1
  (Cb"c":Cg"c")     :pm()                   -- C2
  (Cb"c":Cg"c"):Ct():pm()                   -- C3

     Cc"a"                         :pm()    -- D1
     Cc"a":Cg"c"                   :pm()    -- D2
   ((Cc"a":Cg"c") / "x")           :pm()    -- D3
  (((Cc"a":Cg"c") / "x") * Cb"c")  :pm()    -- D4

Its output in a REPL:

  >   require "lpeg"
  >   B,C,P,R,S,V = lpeg.B,lpeg.C,lpeg.P,lpeg.R,lpeg.S,lpeg.V
  >   Cb,Cc,Cf,Cg = lpeg.Cb,lpeg.Cc,lpeg.Cf,lpeg.Cg
  >   Cp,Cs,Ct    = lpeg.Cp,lpeg.Cs,lpeg.Ct
  >   Carg,Cmt    = lpeg.Carg,lpeg.Cmt
  >   lpeg.pm     = function (pat, str) PP(pat:match(str or "")) end
  > 
  >   pat1234     = Cc(10, 20) * Cc(30, 40):Cg"a"
  >   pat5678     = Cc(50, 60) * Cc(70, 80):Cg"a"
  > 
  >   (pat1234                            )     :pm()    -- A1
   10 20
  >   (pat1234                            ):Ct():pm()    -- A2
   {1=10, 2=20, "a"=30}
  >   (pat1234          * pat5678         ):Ct():pm()    -- A3
   {1=10, 2=20, 3=50, 4=60, "a"=70}
  >   (pat1234 *  Cb"a" * pat5678  * Cb"a"):Ct():pm()    -- A4
   {1=10, 2=20, 3=30, 4=40, 5=50, 6=60, 7=70, 8=80, "a"=70}
  >   (pat1234 * (Cb"a" * pat5678) * Cb"a"):Ct():pm()    -- A5
   {1=10, 2=20, 3=30, 4=40, 5=50, 6=60, 7=70, 8=80, "a"=70}
  > 
  >   (pat1234              ):Ct():pm()         -- B1
   {1=10, 2=20, "a"=30}
  >   (pat1234:Cg"b"        ):Ct():pm()         -- B2
   {"b"=10}
  >   (pat1234:Cg"b" * Cb"b"):Ct():pm()         -- B3
   {1=10, 2=20, "b"=10}
  > 
  >   (Cb"c"      )     :pm()                   -- C1
  stdin:1: back reference 'c' not found
  stack traceback:
  	[C]: in function 'match'
  	stdin:1: in function 'pm'
  	stdin:1: in main chunk
  	[C]: ?
  >   (Cb"c":Cg"c")     :pm()                   -- C2
   1
  >   (Cb"c":Cg"c"):Ct():pm()                   -- C3
  stdin:1: back reference 'c' not found
  stack traceback:
  	[C]: in function 'match'
  	stdin:1: in function 'pm'
  	stdin:1: in main chunk
  	[C]: ?
  > 
  >      Cc"a"                         :pm()    -- D1
   "a"
  >      Cc"a":Cg"c"                   :pm()    -- D2
   1
  >    ((Cc"a":Cg"c") / "x")           :pm()    -- D3
   "x"
  >   (((Cc"a":Cg"c") / "x") * Cb"c")  :pm()    -- D4
  stdin:1: back reference 'c' not found
  stack traceback:
  	[C]: in function 'match'
  	stdin:1: in function 'pm'
  	stdin:1: in main chunk
  	[C]: ?
  > 

Thanks in advance =/,
  Eduardo Ochs




#####
#
# "lpeg.C() drops named captures. Is there a workaround for that?"
# 2023aug28
#
#####

# «capts-lpeg.C»  (to ".capts-lpeg.C")
# https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#sent/QgrcJHrttkhkhHRmFrcMmDLZQmgDTlFdFRl
# http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2023-08/msg00129.html Edrx
# http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2023-08/msg00136.html Roberto
# http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2023-08/msg00137.html Roberto
# http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2023-09/msg00019.html Edrx
# http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2023-09/msg00023.html Roberto

Hi list,

this is related to the discussion in this thread:

  http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2023-08/threads.html#00041

I was trying to write a lpeg pattern that would parse strings like
"(%i3)" and "(%o42)" and return tables like these ones:

  {a="i", b="3", c="(%i3)"}
  {a="o", b="42", c="(%o42)"}

The long story is that I'm rewriting my functions that parse the logs
of Maxima sessions. These logs look this, but that's not relevant now:

  https://home.csulb.edu/~woollett/mbe1intro.pdf#page=9

Anyway, here's what I tried to do - the "PP" in lpeg.pm is my favorite
pretty-printing function, defined in my init file...

  require "lpeg"
  B,C,P,R,S,V = lpeg.B,lpeg.C,lpeg.P,lpeg.R,lpeg.S,lpeg.V
  Cb,Cc,Cf,Cg = lpeg.Cb,lpeg.Cc,lpeg.Cf,lpeg.Cg
  Cp,Cs,Ct    = lpeg.Cp,lpeg.Cs,lpeg.Ct
  Carg,Cmt    = lpeg.Carg,lpeg.Cmt
  lpeg.pm     = function (pat, str) PP(pat:match(str or "")) end

  pa = S"io":Cg"a"
  pb = (R"09"^1):Cg"b"
  pabc  = (P"(%" * pa * pb * P")"):C():Cg"c":Ct()
  pfake = (P"(%i42)" * Cc"i":Cg"a" * Cc"42":Cg"b" * Cc"(%i42)":Cg"c"):Ct()

  pabc :pm"(%i42)"   --> {"c"="(%i42)"}
  pfake:pm"(%i42)"   --> {"a"="i", "b"="42", "c"="(%i42)"}

At first I thought that pabc:pm"(%i42)" would print a table with
fields "a", "b", and "c", like the table printed by the "fake" pattern
pfake in pfake:pm"(%i42)"... but that's not what happens. The
explanation is here:

  lpeg.C (patt)

  Creates a simple capture, which captures the substring of the
  subject that matches patt. The captured value is a string. If patt
  has other captures, their values are returned after this one.

  Source: http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg/lpeg.html#cap-c

The "their _values_ are returned after this one" means that only the
captures that are "values" are returned; the "named" captures produced
by Cg are dropped. This can also be seen in this other test:

  pe = Cc(20) * Cc(30):Cg"a" * Cc(40) * Cc(50):Cg"b"
  pe         :pm"foo"    --> 20 40
  pe    :Ct():pm"foo"    --> {1=20, 2=40, "a"=30, "b"=50}
  pe:C()     :pm"foo"    --> "" 20 40
  pe:C():Ct():pm"foo"    --> {1="", 2=20, 3=40}

So: I understand what is happening, and why it happens... but is there
a workaround? Is it possible to replace the :C():Cg"c" in

  pabc  = (P"(%" * pa * pb * P")"):C():Cg"c":Ct()

by something else, that would put the substring matched by the

           P"(%" * pa * pb * P")"

into the key "c" without dropping the named captures generated by pa
and pb?

Thanks in advance!
  Eduardo Ochs
  http://anggtwu.net/luaforth.html




#####
#
# An extension to Lua to let us refer to the table being constructed
# 2023aug19
#
#####

# «capts-current-table»  (to ".capts-current-table")
# (find-lua51manual "#2.5.7" "Table constructors")
# (find-lpegmanual "#cap-g" "group capture")
# (find-lpegmanual "#cap-b" "back capture")

We know that this

  {10, 20, ["a"]=30, 40, a=50, 60}

is roughly equivalent to this:

  local T = {}
  table.insert(T, 10)
  table.insert(T, 20)
  T["a"] = 30
  table.insert(T, 40)
  T["a"] = 50           -- overwrites the previous T["a"]
  table.insert(T, 60)

Let's imagine an extension of Lua in which this is valid,

  {10, 20, a=30, 40, a=50, 60, ["a"], ["a"]+2}
                               \---/  \---/
                                 50     50
                                      \-----/
                                        52
and corresponds to this:

  local T = {}
  table.insert(T, 10)
  table.insert(T, 20)
  T["a"] = 30
  table.insert(T, 40)
  T["a"] = 50                -- overwrites the previous T["a"]
  table.insert(T, 60)
  table.insert(T, T["a"])    -- ["a"]   becomes T["a"]
  table.insert(T, T["a"]+2)  -- ["a"]+2 becomes T["a"]+2

i.e., each ["a"] references the value stored in the key "a" of the
table that is being constructed. I will refer to the "table that is
being constructed" as the "current table".

_Apparently_ this operation that reads entries from the "current
table" is exactly what we need to understand how _group captures_ and
_back captures_ work in lpeg. Look at the two examples below, that end
with ":pm()"s:

* (eepitch-lua51)
* (eepitch-kill)
* (eepitch-lua51)
  require "lpeg"
  B,C,P,R,S,V = lpeg.B,lpeg.C,lpeg.P,lpeg.R,lpeg.S,lpeg.V
  Cb,Cc,Cf,Cg = lpeg.Cb,lpeg.Cc,lpeg.Cf,lpeg.Cg
  Cp,Cs,Ct    = lpeg.Cp,lpeg.Cs,lpeg.Ct
  Carg,Cmt    = lpeg.Carg,lpeg.Cmt
  lpeg.pm     = function (pat, str) PP(pat:match(str or "")) end

     (Cc"a" * Cc"b":Cg"c" * Cc"d" * Cb"c"):Ct():pm()
  --  \---/   \---/         \---/   \---/
  --   "a"     "b"           "d"    ["c"]
  --          \---------/
  --           ["c"]="b"
  -- \----------------------------------/
  --   "a"     ["c"]="b"     "d"    ["c"]
  -- \----------------------------------------/
  --  {"a",    ["c"]="b",    "d",   ["c"]    }
  -- \----------------------------------------/
  --  {"a",    ["c"]="b",    "d",    "b"     }



     (Cc"a" * Cc("b","c"):Cg"d" * Cc"e" * Cb"d" * Cb"d"):Ct():pm()
  --  \---/   \---------/         \---/   \---/   \---/
  --   "a"       "b" "c"           "e"    ["d"]   ["d"]
  --          \---------------/
  --          ["d"]={."b" "c".}
  --  \-----------------------------------------------/
  --   "a"    ["d"]={."b" "c".}    "e"    ["d"]   ["d"]
  --  \-----------------------------------------------------/
  --  {"a",   ["d"]={."b" "c".},   "e",   ["d"],  ["d"]     }
  --  \-----------------------------------------------------/
  --  {"a",   ["d"]="b",           "e",  "b","c", "b","c"   }


The second example shows that Cc("b","c"):Cg"d" doesn't store a
"value" in ["d"]... it stores a type of object that is a strange cross
between a single value, a table, and a list of values. For more on
"lists of values", see:

  (find-es "lua-intro" "intro:lists")

I will call these new objects "Ltables", and I will write them like
tables, but delimited with "{. .}" instead of just "{ }"; and
sometimes I will omit their commas, and write just

  {."b" "c".}

instead of:

  {."b", "c".}

Ltables can be coerced to values, to lists of values, and to tables.
The diagram above shows some of these coercions, but in a messy way...
I will try to clean that up in a few days!






#####
#
# Apresentação sobre capturas: preparação
# 2023aug18
#
#####

# «apr-capts-prep»  (to ".apr-capts-prep")
# (find-angg "LUA/Deps1.lua")

* (eepitch-shell)
* (eepitch-kill)
* (eepitch-shell)
rm -Rv /tmp/capts/
mkdir  /tmp/capts/
cd     /tmp/capts/
A=(Capts1 Co1 ELpeg1 Globals1 PCall1 Show2 Subst1 Tree1)
for i in $A; do cp -v ~/LUA/${i}.lua .; done
cp -v ~/LUA/lua50init.lua edrxlib.lua

* (eepitch-shell)
* (eepitch-kill)
* (eepitch-shell)
cd     /tmp/capts/
laf
set | grep LUA
export LUA_INIT=
export LUA_INIT=@/tmp/capts/edrxlib.lua
lua5.1
  require "lpeg"
  require "Capts1"
  os.exit()

rm -fv /tmp/capts.zip
cd     /tmp/capts/
zip    /tmp/capts.zip *

# (find-fline "/tmp/capts/")
# (find-cp-angg-links "capts.zip" "/tmp/" "tmp/")

cd /tmp/
scp capts.zip $LINP/tmp/

* (eepitch-shell)
* (eepitch-kill)
* (eepitch-shell)
rm -Rfv /tmp/capts.zip
cd      /tmp/
wget http://anggtwu.net/tmp/capts.zip
rm -Rv  /tmp/capts/
mkdir   /tmp/capts/
cd      /tmp/capts/
unzip   /tmp/capts.zip

# (find-fline "/tmp/capts/")




# http://anggtwu.net/tmp/capts.zip




#####
#
# Apresentação sobre capturas
# 2023aug18
#
#####

# «apr-capts»  (to ".apr-capts")
# (find-LATEX "2023lpegcaptures.tex")
# https://chrisbarrett2.github.io/On%20the%20Simply-Typed%20Functional%20Machine%20Calculus.pdf

* (eepitch-shell)
* (eepitch-kill)
* (eepitch-shell)
rm -Rfv /tmp/capts.zip
cd      /tmp/
wget http://anggtwu.net/tmp/capts.zip
rm -Rv  /tmp/capts/
mkdir   /tmp/capts/
cd      /tmp/capts/
unzip   /tmp/capts.zip


rm -Rfv capts.zip
wget http://anggtwu.net/tmp/capts.zip
rm -Rv  capts/
mkdir   capts/
cd      capts/
unzip   ../capts.zip

* (eepitch-shell)
* (eepitch-kill)
* (eepitch-shell)
cd      /tmp/capts/
export LUA_INIT=@/tmp/capts/edrxlib.lua
lua5.3

PP(2, "3", {4, 5, a=6, [{7,8}]=9, [{7,8}]=10})
--> 2 "3" {1=4, 2=5, "a"=6, {1=7, 2=8}=9, {1=7, 2=8}=10}

lpeg = require "lpeg"
B,C,P,R,S,V = lpeg.B,lpeg.C,lpeg.P,lpeg.R,lpeg.S,lpeg.V
Cb,Cc,Cf,Cg = lpeg.Cb,lpeg.Cc,lpeg.Cf,lpeg.Cg
Cp,Cs,Ct    = lpeg.Cp,lpeg.Cs,lpeg.Ct
Carg,Cmt    = lpeg.Carg,lpeg.Cmt
lpeg.pm     = function (pat, str) PP(pat:match(str or "")) end

(Cc("a","b") * Cc("c","d"))                           :pm()
(Cc("a","b") * Cc("c","d"):Cg"e")                     :pm()
(Cc("a","b") * Cc("c","d"):Cg"e")                :Ct():pm()
(Cc("a","b") * Cc("c","d"):Cg"e" * Cc"f")        :Ct():pm()
(Cc("a","b") * Cc("c","d"):Cg"e" * Cc"f" * Cb"e"):Ct():pm()
(Cc("a","b") * Cc("c","d"):Cg"e" * Cc"f" * Cb"e")     :pm()




#####
#
# lpeg.Cobeying
# 2023sep03
#
#####

# «lpeg.Cobeying»  (to ".lpeg.Cobeying")
# (find-angg "LUA/ELpeg1.lua" "lpeg.Cobeying")

* (eepitch-lua51)
* (eepitch-kill)
* (eepitch-lua51)
require "lpeg"
lpeg.Cobeying = function (pat, f)
    return pat:Cmt(function(subj,pos,o)
        if f(o) then return true,o else return false end
      end)
  end
lpeg.pm = function (pat, str) PP(pat:match(str or "")) end

B,C,P,R,S,V = lpeg.B,lpeg.C,lpeg.P,lpeg.R,lpeg.S,lpeg.V
Cb,Cc,Cf,Cg = lpeg.Cb,lpeg.Cc,lpeg.Cf,lpeg.Cg
Cp,Cs,Ct    = lpeg.Cp,lpeg.Cs,lpeg.Ct
Carg,Cmt    = lpeg.Carg,lpeg.Cmt

C"abc":pm("abcde")
C"abc":Cobeying(function(o) return o:match("^a") end):pm("abcde")  --> "abc"
C"abc":Cobeying(function(o) return o:match("^b") end):pm("abcde")  --> <nil>




#####
#
# lpeg.Cfromthere
# 2023sep09
#
#####

# «lpeg.Cfromthere»  (to ".lpeg.Cfromthere")
# (find-angg "LUA/ELpeg1.lua" "lpeg.Cfromthere")

* (eepitch-lua51)
* (eepitch-kill)
* (eepitch-lua51)
require "lpeg"
B,C,P,R,S,V = lpeg.B,lpeg.C,lpeg.P,lpeg.R,lpeg.S,lpeg.V
Cb,Cc,Cf,Cg = lpeg.Cb,lpeg.Cc,lpeg.Cf,lpeg.Cg
Cp,Cs,Ct    = lpeg.Cp,lpeg.Cs,lpeg.Ct
Carg,Cmt    = lpeg.Carg,lpeg.Cmt

lpeg.pm = function (pat, str) PP(pat:match(str or "")) end
lpeg.Cfromthere = function (pat)
    return pat:Cmt(function(subj,pos,there)
        return pos,subj:sub(there,pos-1)
      end)
  end

c0 = Cp():Cg"c"                -- stores this position in c
ab = C(1):Cg"a" * C(1):Cg"b"   -- stores things in a and b
c1 = Cb"c":Cfromthere():Cg"c"  -- replaces c by everything from there to here

ab:C():Cg"c"  :Ct():pm "ABCD"  --> bad:  {"c"="AB"}
(c0 * ab * c1):Ct():pm "ABCD"  --> good: {"a"="A", "b"="B", "c"="AB"}



#####
#
# lpeg.Ccall - a way to call precompiled (or: external) lpeg patterns
# 2023nov15
#
#####

# «lpeg.Ccall»  (to ".lpeg.Ccall")

* (eepitch-lua51)
* (eepitch-kill)
* (eepitch-lua51)
require "lpeg"
B,C,P,R,S,V = lpeg.B,lpeg.C,lpeg.P,lpeg.R,lpeg.S,lpeg.V
Cb,Cc,Cf,Cg = lpeg.Cb,lpeg.Cc,lpeg.Cf,lpeg.Cg
Cp,Cs,Ct    = lpeg.Cp,lpeg.Cs,lpeg.Ct
Carg,Cmt    = lpeg.Carg,lpeg.Cmt
lpeg.pm     = function (lpat,subj,init,...) PP(lpat:match(subj,init,...)) end
string.pm   = function (spat,subj,init,...) PP(subj:match(spat,init,...)) end

pat1 = C(C(1)*C(1))
pat1 :pm("abcd")

lpeg.Ccall = function (pat)
    local f = function (subj,pos,...)
        local pat2 = pat*Cp()
        local results = pack(pat2:match(subj,pos))
        if results.n == 1 and results[1] == nil then return false end
        local newpos = results[#results]
        results.n = results.n - 1
        return newpos,myunpack(results)
      end
    return P(true):Cmt(f)
  end

(C(2) * pat1:Ccall() * C(2)) : pm("abcdefg")
(C(2) * pat1         * C(2)) : pm("abcdefg")
(C(2) * pat1:Ccall() * C(2)) : pm("ab")
(C(2) * pat1         * C(2)) : pm("ab")

-- Notes:
-- 1) This drops named group captures
-- 2) Do I need this? (Answer: no!!!)






#####
#
# Compare lpeg patterns and string patterns with ":pm"s
# 2023nov15
#
#####

# «compare-pm»  (to ".compare-pm")
# (to "globals")

* (eepitch-lua51)
* (eepitch-kill)
* (eepitch-lua51)
require "lpeg"
B,C,P,R,S,V = lpeg.B,lpeg.C,lpeg.P,lpeg.R,lpeg.S,lpeg.V
Cb,Cc,Cf,Cg = lpeg.Cb,lpeg.Cc,lpeg.Cf,lpeg.Cg
Cp,Cs,Ct    = lpeg.Cp,lpeg.Cs,lpeg.Ct
Carg,Cmt    = lpeg.Carg,lpeg.Cmt
lpeg.pm     = function (lpat,subj,init,...) PP(lpat:match(subj,init,...)) end
string.pm   = function (spat,subj,init,...) PP(subj:match(spat,init,...)) end

("((.)(.))")   :pm("abcd")
(C(C(1)*C(1))) :pm("abcd")

("({([io])([0-9]+)})(.*)")                              :pm("{i42} a+b;")
("({([io])([0-9]+)})(.*)")                              :pm("abcd")
((P"{" * C(S"io") * C(R"09"^1) * P"}"):C() * C(P(1)^0)) :pm("{i42} a+b;")
((P"{" * C(S"io") * C(R"09"^1) * P"}"):C() * C(P(1)^0)) :pm("abcd")




#####
#
# EmacsConf2023: my submission
# 2023sep09
#
#####

# «emacsconf2023»  (to ".emacsconf2023")
# https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#sent/KtbxLthtFKpjqWQxqhgbqRzJFClGMvdzcg

Talk title:
REPLs in strange places: Lua, LaTeX, LPeg, LPegRex, TikZ

Format:
pre-recorded video, estimated 40 mins long

Introduction for you and your talk (<= 100 words):
I am this person here: http://anggtwu.net/eepitch.html

Preferred Q&A approach:
IRC

Public contact information:
edrx on IRC
[email protected]
http://anggtwu.net/

Private emergency contact information:
(+55)(21)98884-2389 (WhatsApp)
@eduardooochs (Telegram)

--snip--snip--

Talk description:

Many years ago, when I started programming, my dream was to write
games. I failed miserably in that, but I became fascinated by
languages, and I discovered Forth - that was perfect for writing
languages whose syntax was as simple as possible. Then I switched to
GNU/Linux and I had a series of favorite languages; at some point I
discovered Lua, that became not only my favorite language but also my
favorite tool for implementing other languages. One of the main
libraries of Lua is something called LPeg, that lets "people"
implement complex parsers in just a few lines of code using PEGs -
Parsing Expression Grammars.

I've put the "people" in the last paragraph between quotes because for
many years I wasn't included in the "people who can implement complex
parsers with LPeg"... lots of things in LPeg didn't make sense to me,
and I couldn't visualize how it worked. Something was missing - some
diagrams, maybe?

The main tool for drawing diagrams in LaTeX is something called TikZ,
that is HUGE - its manual has over 1000 pages. TikZ includes lots of
libraries and extensions, and each one of these libraries and
extensions extends TikZ's core language with some extra constructs.

I don't know anyone - except for a handful of experts - who knows what
is the "core language" of Tikz, that lies, or that should lie, below
all these extensions... all of my friends who use TikZ are just
"users" of TikZ - they've learned some parts of TikZ by starting with
exemples, and by then modifying these examples mostly by trial and
error. In particular, no one among my friends knows how styles in TikZ
really work; styles are implemented using "keys", that are hard to
inspect from a running TeX - see [1] - and I found the chapter on "key
management" in the manual very hard to understand. It feels as if
something is missing from it... some diagrams, maybe?

In my day job I am a mathematician. I work in a federal university in
Brazil, and besides teaching I do some research - mostly in areas in
which the papers and theses have lots of diagrams, of many different
kinds, and in which people use zillions of different programs to draw
their diagrams. Every time that I see those diagrams I think "wow, I
_need_ to learn how to draw diagrams like that!", but until a few
months ago this seemed to be impossible, or very hard, or very
painful...

This presentation will be about a point in which all these ideas
intersect. I am the author of an Emacs package called eev, that
encourages using REPLs in a certain way; Lua can be used in several
different styles, and if we use it in a certain way that most people
hate - with lots of globals, and with an implementation of OO that
makes everything inspectable and modifiable - then it becomes very
REPL-friendly; there is an extension of LPeg called LPegRex ([2],
[3]), that I found promising but hard to use, so I rewrote some parts
of it to make them more REPL-friendly, and to make it print its ASTs
in 2D ASCII art. The core of my presentation will be about how I am
using REPLs written in Lua to write grammars, parsers, and tools to
generate many kinds of diagrams, and how I am using these diagrams to
document both my own code and other people's programs - the parts of
them in which some diagrams seem to be missing. My hope is that people
will find these ideas easy to port to other languages besides Lua, to
other tools for generating diagrams besides LaTeX - SVG, maybe? - and
to other ways to use REPLs in Emacs besides eev. Some ideas in this
presentation were inspired by the blog post [4].

[1] https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/663740/alternative-to-edef-c-pgfkeys-a
[2] https://github.com/edubart/lpegrex
[3] https://github.com/edubart/lpegrex/blob/main/parsers/lua.lua
[4] https://ianthehenry.com/posts/my-kind-of-repl/

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# Building a Programming Language - course by Roberto Ierusalimschy
# 2023dec09
#
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# «bapl»  (to ".bapl")
# https://www.reddit.com/r/lua/comments/uilo65/building_a_programming_language_by_roberto/
# https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXPoQXrP0261ceYEnDd5LaZy2UM_4hLae videos of the first week
# http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLcITMF4VSM Building a Programming Language: Week 1 (Part 1) - Introduction to LPeg
# http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWoAvmpyEJk Building a Programming Language: Week 1 (Part 2) - Basic Constructions
# http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLC3WWhL1aE Building a Programming Language: Week 1 (Part 3) - Concatenation, Repetition and Choices
# http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_7ny3if7_4 Building a Programming Language: Week 1 (Part 4) - Captures
# http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1d30lgzD7Y Building a Programming Language: Week 1 (Part 5) - Predicates
# http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1Hid9Mtnn4 Building a Programming Language: Week 1 (Part 6) - Summations
# http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpEjaC5oFOU Building a Programming Language: Week 1 (Part 7) - Arithmetic Expressions
# http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQuRFoxAoyM Building a Programming Language: Week 1 (Part 8) - Parenthesized Expressions




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#
# My e-mail about replacing some "printfs" in Lpeg
# 2024jan11
#
#####

# «replace-printfs-1»  (to ".replace-printfs-1")
# (to "lpeg-debug-mode")
# Help needed to replace some printfs in the lpeg source with something else
# https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#sent/KtbxLwHLtGvDFzNMkqjlQxNlRsHMSSjNGq
# https://groups.google.com/g/lua-l/c/7CkFNrlosW4
Hi list,

I am the author of this thing, that adds a Lua interpreter to Emacs,

  https://github.com/edrx/emlua/#introduction

but I was only able to write it because someone - nerditation - helped
me with the part in C...

  https://github.com/edrx/emlua/blob/main/emlua.cpp

Now I'm going to ask for help on another thing in C - this time to
make the debugging functions of lpeg slightly more useful.


1. Introduction and demo
========================
This is what I use to compile lpeg with "-DLPEG_DEBUG" on Debian, and
to test the methods :pcode() and :ptree(), that are only available
when LPEG_DEBUG is defined:

  export S=$HOME/snarf
  mkdir -p $S/http/www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg/
  cd       $S/http/www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg/
  wget -nc 'http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg/lpeg-1.1.0.tar.gz'
  
  rm -Rv ~/usrc/lpeg-1.1.0/
  mkdir  ~/usrc/lpeg-1.1.0/
  tar -C ~/usrc/ -xvzf $S/http/www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg/lpeg-1.1.0.tar.gz
  cd     ~/usrc/lpeg-1.1.0/
  ls *.c *.h | tee .files.ch
  etags      $(cat .files.ch)
  
  rm -fv *.o
  rm -fv *.so
  rm -fv om
  make LUADIR=/usr/include/lua5.1 COPT="-O2 -DLPEG_DEBUG"

  lua5.1
    HOME = os.getenv("HOME")
    package.cpath = HOME.."/usrc/lpeg-1.1.0/?.so;" .. package.cpath
    require "lpeg"
    AlphaNumeric = lpeg.R("AZ", "az", "09")
    AnchorChar = AlphaNumeric + lpeg.S("!#$%()*+,-./:;=?@^_{|}~")
    AnchorChar:pcode()
    AnchorChar:ptree()
    os.exit()

When I run all that in a shell, the log of the last part is:

  Lua 5.1.5  Copyright (C) 1994-2012 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
  >   HOME = os.getenv("HOME")
  >   package.cpath = HOME.."/usrc/lpeg-1.1.0/?.so;" .. package.cpath
  >   require "lpeg"
  >   AlphaNumeric = lpeg.R("AZ", "az", "09")
  >   AnchorChar = AlphaNumeric + lpeg.S("!#$%()*+,-./:;=?@^_{|}~")
  >   AnchorChar:pcode()
  []
  00: set (20-3) [(21)(23-25)(28-3b)(3d)(3f-5a)(5e-5f)(61-7e)]
  04: end 
  >   AnchorChar:ptree()
  []
  set(04-12) [(21)(23-25)(28-3b)(3d)(3f-5a)(5e-5f)(61-7e)]
  >   os.exit()

but pcode and ptree don't return strings - they _print_ strings...



2. Help needed
==============
The file ptree.c in the lpeg source contains these lines:

  static struct luaL_Reg pattreg[] = {
    {"ptree", lp_printtree},
    {"pcode", lp_printcode},
    {"match", lp_match},
    {"B", lp_behind},
    ...
  }

and lpprint.h contains this:

  #if defined(LPEG_DEBUG)
  
  void printpatt (Instruction *p, int n);
  void printtree (TTree *tree, int ident);
  void printktable (lua_State *L, int idx);
  void printcharset (const byte *st);
  void printcaplist (Capture *cap, Capture *limit);
  void printinst (const Instruction *op, const Instruction *p);
  
  #else
  
  #define printktable(L,idx)  \
  	luaL_error(L, "function only implemented in debug mode")
  #define printtree(tree,i)  \
  	luaL_error(L, "function only implemented in debug mode")
  #define printpatt(p,n)  \
  	luaL_error(L, "function only implemented in debug mode")
  
  #endif

The debugging functions - in lpprint.c - are implemented using
"printf"s. Suppose that we replace all of the 32 occurrence of
"printf" in lpprint.c by "mylpegprintf_C", and mylpegprintf_C is a
function or macro that would do this (in pseudocode in Lua):

  mylpegprintf_C = function (fmt, ...)
      if _G.mylpegprintf
      then local str = sprintf(fmt, ...)   -- calls sprintf in C
           _G.mylpegprintf(str)            -- calls Lua
      else printf(fmt, ...)                -- calls printf in C
      end
    end

then it would be trivial to write variants of :pcode and :ptree that
would return strings instead of just printing things...

Anyone would like to help me with that? I can't offer fame or fortune
- just credit and many, many thanks...

  Thanks in advance (hopefully),
    Eduardo Ochs
    http://anggtwu.net/eepitch.html
    http://anggtwu.net/emacsconf2023.html





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# My e-mail about replacing some "printfs" in Lpeg - Roberto's answer
# 2024jan11
#
#####

# «replace-printfs-2»  (to ".replace-printfs-2")
# (find-node "(libc)Variable Arguments Output")
# (find-node "(libc)Variadic Functions")
# (find-node "(libc)How Variadic")

If I would do that kind of thing (I probably will, but not now), I would
use a 'string buffer' from the auxiliary library to built the resulting
string, all in C.

I would change all calls to printf to something like this:

  printf(fmt, ...)  -->  myprintf(b, fmt, ...)

The function 'myprintf' would be something like this:

static void myprintf (luaL_Buffer *B, const char *fmt, ...) {
  va_list argp;
  char *buff[250];
  int len;
  va_start(argp, fmt);
  len = vsprintf(buff, fmt, argp);
  va_end(argp);
  luaL_addlstring(B, buff, len);
}

The main functions would be responsible for creating the buffers and
finishing them to create the final string result.




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#
# long-strings
# 2024jan28
#
#####

# «long-strings»  (to ".long-strings")
# (find-lpegmanual "#ex" "Lua's long strings")

Lua's long strings
==================
A long string in Lua starts with the pattern [=*[ and ends at the
first occurrence of ]=*] with exactly the same number of equal signs.
If the opening brackets are followed by a newline, this newline is
discarded (that is, it is not part of the string).

To match a long string in Lua, the pattern must capture the first
repetition of equal signs and then, whenever it finds a candidate for
closing the string, check whether it has the same number of equal
signs.

  equals = lpeg.P"="^0
  open = "[" * lpeg.Cg(equals, "init") * "[" * lpeg.P"\n"^-1
  close = "]" * lpeg.C(equals) * "]"
  closeeq = lpeg.Cmt(close * lpeg.Cb("init"), function (s, i, a, b) return a == b end)
  string = open * lpeg.C((lpeg.P(1) - closeeq)^0) * close / 1

The open pattern matches [=*[, capturing the repetitions of equal
signs in a group named init; it also discharges an optional newline,
if present. The close pattern matches ]=*], also capturing the
repetitions of equal signs. The closeeq pattern first matches close;
then it uses a back capture to recover the capture made by the
previous open, which is named init; finally it uses a match-time
capture to check whether both captures are equal. The string pattern
starts with an open, then it goes as far as possible until matching
closeeq, and then matches the final close. The final numbered capture
simply discards the capture made by close.



* (eepitch-lua51)
* (eepitch-kill)
* (eepitch-lua51)
Path.addLUAtopath()
require "ELpeg1"    -- (find-angg "LUA/ELpeg1.lua")
gr,V,VA,VE,PE = Gram.new()

V.equals  = P"="^0
V.optnl   = P"\n"^-1
V.open    = "[" * V.equals:Cg"init" * "[" * V.optnl
V.close   = "]" * V.equals:C()      * "]"
V.closeeq = (V.close * Cb"init"):Cmt(function (s,i,a,b) return a==b end)
V.middle  = (1 - V.closeeq)^0
V.string  = (V.open * V.middle:C() * V.close) / 1




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# marpa
# 2024sep28
#
#####

# «marpa»  (to ".marpa")
# https://ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org/html/1910.08129 Marpa, a practical general parser: the recognizer (Jeffrey Kegler)
# https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.08129 Marpa, A practical general parser: the recognizer
# https://jeffreykegler.github.io/Marpa-web-site/
# https://jeffreykegler.github.io/Ocean-of-Awareness-blog/
# https://jeffreykegler.github.io/Ocean-of-Awareness-blog/metapages/annotated.html
# https://jeffreykegler.github.io/Ocean-of-Awareness-blog/individual/2018/05/knuth_1965.html
# https://jeffreykegler.github.io/personal/timeline_v3 ***
# https://jeffreykegler.github.io/Ocean-of-Awareness-blog/individual/2013/03/bnf_to_ast.html
# https://jeffreykegler.github.io/Ocean-of-Awareness-blog/individual/2015/03/peg.html
# https://savage.net.au/Marpa.html
# https://github.com/jeffreykegler/old_kollos/blob/master/about.md
# https://lukasatkinson.de/2015/marpa-overview/
# https://jeffreykegler.github.io/Ocean-of-Awareness-blog/individual/2011/11/marpa-and-the-ruby-slippers.html
# https://loup-vaillant.fr/tutorials/earley-parsing/
# https://jeffreykegler.github.io/Ocean-of-Awareness-blog/individual/2016/03/parus.html birds
# https://jeffreykegler.github.io/Ocean-of-Awareness-blog/individual/2012/dsl.html
# https://jeffreykegler.github.io/Ocean-of-Awareness-blog/individual/2013/01/dsl_simpler2.html
# https://marpa-guide.github.io/index.html





https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2021-09/msg02044.html Apparently it has been proven
https://lists.csail.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/peg
https://lists.csail.mit.edu/pipermail/peg/
https://lists.csail.mit.edu/pipermail/peg/2019-August/000771.html
https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/comments/a80stl/are_there_any_languages_that_use_a_peg_in_their/
https://github.com/aappleby/Matcheroni/ Matcheroni & Parseroni (for C++20)
https://eyalkalderon.com/blog/nom-error-recovery/ Error recovery with parser combinators (using nom)
https://github.com/ohmjs/ohm
https://nextjournal.com/dubroy/ohm-parsing-made-easy
https://github.com/ohmjs/ohm/tree/main/examples/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38082594 Ohm: A library and language for building parsers, interpreters, compilers, etc (github.com/ohmjs)
https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2011/03/19/pratt-parsers-expression-parsing-made-easy/ ***
https://safinaskar.writeas.com/this-is-why-you-should-never-use-parser-combinators-and-peg
https://blog.reverberate.org/2013/09/ll-and-lr-in-context-why-parsing-tools.html
https://dickgrune.com/Books/PTAPG_2nd_Edition/







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