Bug#406135: O: tclex -- A lexical analyzer generator for Tcl
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Severity: normal
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Some information about this package:
Package: tclex
Binary: tclex
Version: 1.2a1-9.1
Priority: extra
Section: interpreters
Maintainer: David A. van Leeuwen <vleeuwen@debian.org>
Build-Depends: tcl8.3-dev, tk8.3-dev, debhelper
Architecture: any
Standards-Version: 3.6.1
Format: 1.0
Directory: pool/main/t/tclex
Files:
405152fbb7c2d9370019aab5a9f0f2b5 578 tclex_1.2a1-9.1.dsc
bfbe12dfce3c054c561972bc3c92be8b 100103 tclex_1.2a1.orig.tar.gz
ee85fb874d2dd6f61c7d56ebb83c389d 5454 tclex_1.2a1-9.1.diff.gz
Package: tclex
Priority: extra
Section: interpreters
Installed-Size: 212
Maintainer: David A. van Leeuwen <vleeuwen@debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 1.2a1-9.1
Depends: tcl8.3, tk8.3, libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6)
Filename: pool/main/t/tclex/tclex_1.2a1-9.1_i386.deb
Size: 45596
MD5sum: 90844e4465b01cbac21d4c59c154e43a
SHA1: d216d2c67a2e217c6cc3255d84b1392946e29893
SHA256: 5e7e52862ea3e03f5ed91fca49d733ae0b40e49b00d427e588bd6739257f3fba
Description: A lexical analyzer generator for Tcl
tcLex is a lexer (lexical analyzer) generator extension to Tcl. It is
inspired by Unix and GNU lex and flex, which are "tools for
generating programs that perform pattern-matching on text". tcLex is
very similar to these programs, except it uses Tcl philosophy and
syntax, whereas the others use their own syntax and are used in
conjunction with the C language. People used to lex or flex should
then feel familiar with tcLex. tcLex is a small extension (the
Windows compiled version is about 20kb, and the source is about
150kb), because it extensively uses the Tcl library. However, the
current doesn't use Tcl's regexp code anymore but a patched version
is now included in tcLex, which makes it slightly bigger (by a few
KB). tcLex should work with Tcl 8.0 and later. tcLex will NEVER work
with earlier versions, because it uses Tcl 8.0's "object" system for
performance. The most interesting features are:
.
* cross-platform support, thanks to Tcl. Though it has been
developed on Windows and tested on Windows and Unix only, it
should work on other platforms as long as Tcl exists on these
platforms. Supported Tcl platforms are Windows 95/NT, Unix (Linux,
Solaris...) and Macintosh. Other platforms are VMS, OS/2,
NeXTStep, Amiga...
.
* unlike lex and flex, which only generate static lexers written in
C and intended to be compiled, tcLex dynamically generates Tcl
commands that can be used like other C commands or Tcl procedures
from within Tcl scripts or C programs.
.
* it uses Tcl regular expressions. That means you don't have to
learn another regexp language.
.
* it works with Tcl namespaces
.
* the generated lexer commands can be used in one pass or
incrementally, because they maintain state information. That way,
several instances of the same lexer (eg a HTML parser) can run at
the same time in distinct call frames and maintain distinct states
(local variables...). Lexer need not be specially designed in
order to be used incrementally, the same lexer can transparently
be used in one pass or incrementally. This feature is especially
useful when processing text from a file or an Internet socket (Web
pages for example), when data is not necessarily available at the
beginning of the processing.
Tag: devel::code-generator, devel::lang:tcl, interface::commandline, role::program, scope::utility, uitoolkit::tk, works-with::software:source
--
Mohammed Adnène Trojette
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