[Omake] SVN Commit: OMake Build System [0.9.8.x] (Rev. 12497)

[Jason Hickey]

By version, do you mean omake version like 0.9.8.7?

Python does it a little differently, by using logical names for the  
syntax variants.  This seems a little easier to me, but you could  
still have multiple minor modes.  It is all kind of mysterious to me,  
but I suppose I can imagine something like,

    .LANGUAGE: program: arrow-funs keyword-arguments super-gobsnopper- 
frobnatz

Problem is, at the moment, there are exactly 0 minor modes.

Jason

On Nov 9, 2007, at 10:28 AM, Aleksey Nogin wrote:

> On 01.11.2007 19:27, Jason J. Hickey wrote:
>
>> Switched from
>>
>>   program-syntax
>>
>> to
>>
>>   .LANGUAGE: <mode>
>>
>> where <mode> is either "program", or "make".
>>
>> There are no minor modes -- I'm not sure why we would need them...
>>
> The minor modes were meant for version tracking - it is inevitable  
> that
> we will make some incompatible changes in the future - the keywords
> syntax change and the "=>" binding syntax change that we are making
> right now is extremely unlikely to be the last one.
>
> If we track the versions and if we process the .LANGUAGE directive at
> parse-time, then we can have meaningful error messages for new-syntax
> files in old-version OMake instead of all kinds of weird syntax error
> messages.
>
> Aleksey
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