From 0588d19abef62dad63a7794a37bdd6a71c526d9e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Patrick Georgi Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:00:51 +0000 Subject: Kconfig! Works on Kontron, qemu, and serengeti. Signed-off-by: Patrick Georgi tested on abuild only. Acked-by: Ronald G. Minnich git-svn-id: svn://svn.coreboot.org/coreboot/trunk@4534 2b7e53f0-3cfb-0310-b3e9-8179ed1497e1 --- util/sconfig/NOTES | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 46 insertions(+) create mode 100644 util/sconfig/NOTES (limited to 'util/sconfig/NOTES') diff --git a/util/sconfig/NOTES b/util/sconfig/NOTES new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..325e76a479 --- /dev/null +++ b/util/sconfig/NOTES @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +April 14, 2002: + +I haven't worked on Yapps for a while, mainly because I spent all my energy +on trying to graduate. Now that I've finished school, I have several projects +I want to start working on again, including Yapps. + +Notes for myself: + +Add a debugging mode that helps you understand how the grammar + is constructed and how things are being parsed +Look into an English output mode that would use natural language + to describe a grammar +Optimize unused variables +Add a convenience to automatically gather up the values returned + from subpatterns, put them into a list, and return them +Improve the documentation +Write some larger examples +Get rid of old-style regex support +Use SRE's lex support to speed up lexing (this may be hard given that + yapps allows for context-sensitive lexers) +Look over Dan Connoly's experience with Yapps (bugs, frustrations, etc.) + and see what improvements could be made +Add something to pretty-print the grammar (without the actions) +Maybe conditionals? Follow this rule only if holds. + But this would be useful mainly when multiple rules match, and we + want the first matching rule. The conditional would mean we skip to + the next rule. Maybe this is part of the attribute grammar system, + where rule X<0> can be specified separately from X. +Convenience functions that could build return values for all rules + without specifying the code for each rule individually +Patterns (abstractions over rules) -- for example, comma separated values + have a certain rule pattern that gets replicated all over the place +"Gather" mode that simply outputs the return values for certain nodes. + For example, if you just want all expressions, you could ask yapps + to gather the results of the 'expr' rule into a list. This would + ignore all the higher level structure. +Look at everyone's Yapps grammars, and come up with larger examples + http://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/SemEnglish.g + http://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/kifExpr.g + http://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/rdfn3.g +It would be nice if you could feed text into Yapps (push model) instead + of Yapps reading text out of a string (pull model). However, I think + that would make the resulting parser code mostly unreadable + (like yacc, etc.). Coroutines/stacklesspython may be the answer. + + -- cgit v1.2.3