2011/2/25 Hauschild, Klaus (EXT)
Hi,
Currently I'm trying to lern Haskell by doing. After doing some examples I plan to solve an ICFP task (see subject). In short: build an interpreter for a stack based language thata describes a 3D scene. Ray trace this scene in an image. My current source state can be found here: http://code.google.com/p/hgmltracer/source/browse/ My first goal is to develop the interpreter of the GML language. My source contains a data GmlToken with various constructors for the different operators, sequences, int, real, string an so on. Some code for the evaluation is also there und working. But the parser converting a string (contained in the program file provided as command line argument) is hard stuff and I'm stuck.
Can any one help me with ideas or concepts for this parser?
Hi, You have chosen to develop a very interesting program and I'm sure a lot of people could help you if you face any problem. But it would be easier for those people to help you if you could be a bit more specific about what works (or what you understand) and where you have some problem. In this case, maybe you could copy in the mail some code (possibly cutting it down to what really matter). For instance, I think central to your mail is this data structure: data GmlToken = IntToken Int | RealToken Double | BoolToken Bool | StringToken String | FunctionToken [GmlSequence] | ArrayTokenToken [GmlSequence] | BinderToken String | IdentifierToken String | AddiToken and the function parse :: [String] -> TokenSequence -> TokenSequence parse = ... At first view I would say that parse should be (and I call it tokenize) tokenize :: String -> [GmlToken] Now, maybe you can provide some sample inputs *with* their expected output and tell us what is really a problem for you. Alternatively I can assume too much (or not enough) things from your mail and you can enlighten me :) Cheers, Thu