Re: Variables : list : scope : system : const

On Saturday 10 May 2003 15:07, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote:
<snip>
> >  > a string containing multiple list references will be split on
> >  > the references, and the list will contain the pre-, in- and
> >  > post-fixes as elements in the list.
> >  >
> >  >   ["@{var} @{var}!"] => ["meep", " ", "meep", "!"]
On a gut level, I'd thought that
  [ "@{var} @{var}!" ] => [ "meep meep!" ].
And if var contains "foo" and "bar":
 [ "@{var} @{var}!" ]
    => [ "foo foo!", "foo bar!", "bar foo!", "bar bar!" ]
This is probably since brace expansion works like this in UNIX shells:
 $ echo {foo,bar}_{foo,bar}
 foo_foo foo_bar bar_foo bar_bar
and Sieve's header test, too:
 if address :all :is [ "To", "Cc" ]
                     [ "mutz(_at_)kde(_dot_)org", 
"mutz(_at_)mail(_dot_)kde(_dot_)org" ] {
  # To <-> kde.org, To <-> mail.kde.org
  # Cc <-> kde.org, Cc <-> mail.kde.org
 }

> >   The effect of these expressions are now entirely nonobvious.
<snip>

And not straightforward to define either, it seems.

> >   I might agree had the syntax for adding them been cleaner. But it
> >   isn't, so I don't.
> I believe a cleaner syntax requires changes to the basic grammar of
> Sieve.
That would introduce a catch22:
- You need the grammar to parse "require" commands
- You need to parse the "require" commands to find out the currently
  valid grammar.

At least in my implementation the grammar is hard-coded and any 
extension-dependent code kicks in after parsing into 
command/test/command-list/etc has taken place.

I expect others to do it likewise.

Marc

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