Intro
This is a simple lexer for the BlitzMax programming language (with additions- see Additions for notes on that). It currently supplies a more or less functional C lexer that in turn is wrapped by BlitzMax. The lexer is written by me as well.
Installation
To install this module, simply clone it into BlitzMax/mod/cower.mod as bmxlexer.mod, like so:
cd /Path/To/BlitzMax/mod
mkdir cower.mod && cd cower.mod
git clone git://github.com/nilium/cower.bmxlexer.git bmxlexer.mod
To build this, you will obviously need the usual tools (Xcode, MinGW, GCC, etc. depending on your platform). If and when that's all set up, simply rebuild your modules either using bmk makemods cower.bmxlexer or in your preferred IDE.
Additions
As mentioned in the intro, there have been some additions to the keywords other than those BlitzMax normally supports:
Implements -> TOK_IMPLEMENTS_KW
Protocol -> TOK_PROTOCOL_KW
End\s?Protocol -> TOK_ENDPROTOCOL_KW
Auto -> TOK_AUTO_KW
:= -> TOK_ASSIGN_AUTO
-- -> TOK_DOUBLEMINUS
++ -> TOK_DOUBLEPLUS
... -> TOK_TRIPLEDOT
To disable support for these, modify your lexer.h and comment out the line defining BMAX_USE_ADDITIONS. This will disable special treatment of those operators/keywords and they will again become identifiers and/or bizarre syntax errors.
Adding additional keywords is fairly simple, and any of those can be used as an example if need be (excepting triple-dot, which isn't considered an ordered pair or single). That said, you should never remove a token from the token_kind_t enum unless you want to also remove its string equivalent. Tokens that are unused will have no effect on the code, so it's better to leave them in place and simply add your own tokens onto the end (including string representations found in lexer.c).
License
This source code is licensed under the extremely permissive zlib/libpng license:
Copyright (c) 2010 Noel R. Cower
This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied
warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages
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including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it
freely, subject to the following restrictions:
1. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must not
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