Function call delimiter about -g-pl HOT 8 CLOSED

I'm having trouble understanding why the number of arguments affect how it's parsed. I've only studied one way of parsing, and that's top down LL(1). It seemed to me as long as the grammar of the language didn't have any ambiguity, was context free, not left recursive, then the parser would be able to handle it. Also what do you mean by the value of the function, it's name, memory location?

I think I'm thinking about it differently because I'm imagining it being compiled and not interpreted, which my implementation might be.

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It seemed to me as long as the grammar of the language didn't have any ambiguity

The problem here is that the grammar of the language HAD ambiguity.

Previously,

>foo >bar bat baz

was ambiguous between the following:

• foo() bar() bat baz
• foo(bar()) bat baz
• foo(bar(), bat) baz
• foo(bar(), bat baz)
• foo() bar(bat) baz
• foo() bar(bat, baz)
• foo(bar(bat)) baz
• foo(bar(bat), baz)
• foo(bar(bat, baz))

And the actual result would be determined based on how many parameters foo and bar take, respectively.

Now, with the addition of semicolons, it would be

>foo >bar bat; baz;

Which makes it clear that foo(bar(bat), baz) is meant, and nothing else.

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ah i see, so how the hell does perl do it lol? there is always the option of adding parens, which I'm not entirely against.

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perl is interpreted and slow as shit for a reason :)

Edit: Doesn't perl force parentheses where it would be ambiguous otherwise?

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For the reference, my implementation is basically working. The hello world compiles except for three parts:

1. I don't have a comparison function yet so >is name "nand" fails
2. I don't remove comments yet so those fail
3. I don't have any “gb2” yet so that fails

Otherwise, the rest is working fully.

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Update: I added a comparison function now, so now the only issue I still need to solve is comments and gb2. :)

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damn you work fast

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I'm closing this. If we get any better ideas later on, open a new issue.

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