recognizers

A collection of recognizers

Recognizers

Matthias Trute <mtrute@web.de> Version 1.2.1 - 2016-10-09

This package is a collection of recognizer examples. To play with them, simple implementations for (old) gforth and VFX are included. These words are not (yet) able to compile code or are otherwise integrated into the underlying system.

Many examples contain test units that illustrate what the recognizer is supposed to do.

`Recognizer*.4th`

These files in combination with Stack.4th give a playground for making experiments with recognizers. They have been tested with gforth versions that usually come with the linux distributions and MPE's vfxlin (a random old version from 2014).

The files Recognizer-gforth.4th and Recognizer-vfx.4th differ in two aspects only. First is the tester framework. Gforth supplies the T{ }T words while vfx has the older { } pair (and a slightly different filename to be used). Second is the implementation of the number recognizers which use existing words that differ alot.

`rec-char.4th`

Forth 2012 defined the 'c' syntax for single characters. That means that char c or [char] c can be replaced with 'c'.

Just load the file and put the rec:char at the right place into the recognizer stack.

Author: Matthias Trute, 2016 License: public domain.

`rec-num.4th` and `rec-dnum.4th`

Recognizer for numbers. They check for exactly one of the two cases: single cell or double cell numbers. The double cell number recognizer strictly follows the Forth 2012 spec and allows trailing dots only.

They use >NUMBER for the actual number conversion, some features such as signs and base prefixes are left out. Your system shall have better ones, these are more educational.

Author: Matthias Trute, 2016 License: public domain.

`literacy.4th`

Simple formatting of source code in the spirit von Don Knuth literate programming. You can combine the real source code and its documentation in one document that the standard forth interpreter can handle directly.

Author: Julian Fondren, 2014 License: probably public domain.