[Maude-help] Re: Parsing question (answer + new question)

[Francisco Duran]

Hi Todd,

I'm late to your first email. It's good that you managed to get your own 
answer.

> I copied the "special" declarations used in EXP above from 
> prelude.maude, hoping that they might produce the parsing behavior I 
> was looking for, and I was rewarded.  However, now, my question 
> becomes: what is the link between these specials and the way Maude 
> parses integers, floats, and strings?  


They are handled like tokens with such a special structure. Such 
information is used both for parsing and for typing the resulting parse.

> More generally, does there exist any documentation of these special 
> attributes, id-hook, op-hook, term-hook, etc.?  


No published documentation on them. They are built-ins, system 
dependent, they are just hooks to the C++ implementations. The special 
attributes allow you to use them in the way you have done, or even 
changing the operators (you can rename built-in operators).

> Am I creating some possible problems by using these features to parse 
> literal constants in my applications?


There should be no problem. In fact, you may be interested in using your 
own tokens. Take a look to the section on the manual on Tokens, Bubbles, 
and Metaparsing.

Best regards,

Paco Duran