Re: gp: eval(Str("A"(-1)"B"))

[Karim BELABAS <Karim.Belabas@math.u-psud.fr>]

On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, Michael Somos wrote:
>     For my own information I would like to know why the difference:
>
> ? eval(Str("A"(1)"B"))
> %1 = A1B
> ? eval(Str("A"(-1)"B"))
> %2 = A - 1

I see no problem with eval("A1B") --> A1B

eval("A-1B") should trigger a syntax error, namely
  ***   unused characters: A-1B
                              ^-
Unfortunately, 'eval' simply calls 'flisseq', which reads as many characters
as will constitute a valid 'seq' and returns the result. This is needed for
things like

  for (i=1,n,blah); \\ lisseq is called with argument  "blah);"

In order to trigger the expected error with the current parser, I would have
to move eval() to anal.c and have it include a copy of lisseq0. Don't really
want to do it. Other solution: parse eval's argument before calling the
interpreter (which will reparse it) --> slowdown; not good.

A decent solution is to switch to GP2C's parser. Later...

Cheers,

    Karim.
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