[perl #36606] [PATCH] create t/r6rules/rx_grammar.t - a new (currently failing) test of pge

[Mitchell N Charity]

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PGE is currently passing all tests, but failing to run a "large" pugs
grammar (one for p6 regexps). So I transliterated part of the grammar
into a (failing) test. Attached. The test can grow into a full regexp
description, and serves as a way of flagging any apparent pge problems
encountered along the way.

Thanks for all your work,
Mitchell Charity

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 10:25:08AM -0700, Mitchell N Charity wrote:
> PGE is currently passing all tests, but failing to run a "large" pugs
> grammar (one for p6 regexps). So I transliterated part of the grammar
> into a (failing) test. Attached. The test can grow into a full regexp
> description, and serves as a way of flagging any apparent pge problems
> encountered along the way.

Wow, this is excellent, thanks!

Is this test based on the rules grammar that is currently in
pugs/trunk/modules/Grammars/rx_grammar.pl? (It appears so.)

If yes, can I propose that we go ahead and clean up that grammar
definition a bit, and then build the test off of that? (My use
of "we" here explicitly includes "me".) Some of the rules listed
in rx_grammar.pl are not as I think they should be, so it might be
productive to hammer out a better working definition for the
syntax and then build the test.

(Plus, we may be able to use this as a good reason to get the PGE
test suite to directly read and test rx_grammar.pl, so that we don't
have to manually maintain both.)

So, if you're in agreement, shall I post my changes to rx_grammar.pl
for discussion (to perl6-compiler)? Or should we take a different
approach?

Thanks,

Pm

[Jerry Gay via RT]

> [pmichaud - Thu Jul 21 02:10:03 2005]:

it's been a while since this ticket was last updated. has work
progressed on getting pge to compile rx_grammar.pl?

~jerry