-;;; smie.el --- Simple Minded Indentation Engine
+;;; smie.el --- Simple Minded Indentation Engine -*- lexical-binding: t -*-
;; Copyright (C) 2010-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
;; - Maybe accept two juxtaposed non-terminals in the BNF under the condition
;; that the first always ends with a terminal, or that the second always
;; starts with a terminal.
+;; - Permit EBNF-style notation.
+;; - If the grammar has conflicts, the only way is to make the lexer return
+;; different tokens for the different cases. This extra work performed by
+;; the lexer can be costly and unnecessary: we perform this extra work every
+;; time we find the conflicting token, regardless of whether or not the
+;; difference between the various situations is relevant to the current
+;; situation. E.g. we may try to determine whether a ";" is a ";-operator"
+;; or a ";-separator" in a case where we're skipping over a "begin..end" pair
+;; where the difference doesn't matter. For frequently occurring tokens and
+;; rarely occurring conflicts, this can be a significant performance problem.
+;; We could try and let the lexer return a "set of possible tokens
+;; plus a refinement function" and then let parser call the refinement
+;; function if needed.
+;; - Make it possible to better specify the behavior in the face of
+;; syntax errors. IOW provide some control over the choice of precedence
+;; levels within the limits of the constraints. E.g. make it possible for
+;; the grammar to specify that "begin..end" has lower precedence than
+;; "Module..EndModule", so that if a "begin" is missing, scanning from the
+;; "end" will stop at "Module" rather than going past it (and similarly,
+;; scanning from "Module" should not stop at a spurious "end").
;;; Code:
;; Maybe also add (or <elem1> <elem2>...) for things like
;; (exp (exp (or "+" "*" "=" ..) exp)).
;; Basically, make it EBNF (except for the specification of a separator in
- ;; the repetition).
+ ;; the repetition, maybe).
(let ((nts (mapcar 'car bnf)) ;Non-terminals
(first-ops-table ())
(last-ops-table ())