Comments on: Listen to me rant about ActionScript, part 1

By: David Zuckerman

David Zuckerman — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:04:23 +0000

If you google ActionScript grammar, there’s probably something out there. Check out antlr.org, they have a great list of grammars

By: Awan

Awan — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:38:42 +0000

Hi David,

I need the ActionScript grammar to build a parser upon it. Is it possible to get it !!?

Best regards,

By: David Zuckerman

David Zuckerman — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:37:52 +0000

Editors and keyboards not supporting them well is a bit of a hurdle

By: Rob Freundlich

Rob Freundlich — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:42:03 +0000

ASCII (and presumably Unicode, since it supposedly incorporates everything) already has four delimiters built in:

28 – File Separator
29 – Group Separator
30 – Record Separator
31 – Unit Separator

I have never understood why nobody uses them (other than most editors not displaying them well)

By: Sev

Sev — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:16:09 +0000

In my recent project, I had to do quite some String parsing (in Actionscript). It’s mainly parsing CSS, an extended version of JSON and some simple action format. While my main challenge was speed, I can now much more appreciate when I read about your insides. It’s very interesting and I’m looking forward to read part 2 (now)

On a side note – RegExp: It’s kind of funny that it gives you difficulties to parse, as it gave me difficulties to *use* for parsing, for the simple fact that it’s much slower than string operations.

By: Marking Occurrences » Listen to me rant about ActionScript, part 2

Marking Occurrences » Listen to me rant about ActionScript, part 2 — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 06:22:21 +0000

[...] developer’s lives easier. That sugar, however, gives me, umm, toothaches, some of which I talked about already. So now, I’ll rant about some other idiosyncrasies of AS3 that make it an interesting [...]

By: Jason The Saj

Jason The Saj — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:46:47 +0000

For years I have argued that one of the most significant failings in computing is the lack of an actual delimeter.

I’ve argued for the adoption of þ as a universal delimiter or the creation of some said unused character. That would not be included in actual common text.