Re: [tlaplus] Toolbox Plugin development

On Monday, September 6, 2021 at 3:30:48 AM UTC-7 cliffor...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Oh, that is a great relief. My humble apologies for my strong language, and thanks for the pointers to better resources.

It is a relief to think that no-one thinks that this kind of JSON would be a good way to create a grammar.
That doesn't explain XSLT, of course.
/me ducks :)

Chapter 15 is especially useful. I'll see if I can finally establish the common semantic elements TLA+ has with my Constellation Query Language (which has no temporal aspect, but does handle FOL).

Clifford Heath.

> On 6 Sep 2021, at 2:11 pm, Andrew Helwer <andrew...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> The JSON is auto-generated. The files you're looking for are grammar.js and src/scanner.cc for the context-sensitive parts of the language.
>
> You can find the language spec for TLA+2 on this page: http://lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/tla2.html
>
> Andrew
> On Saturday, September 4, 2021 at 6:51:16 PM UTC-7 cliffor...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> As a languages geek, I had heard of tree-sitter, but had never actually looked at it.
>
> Wow... It just totally freaks me out that someone who has the ability and desire to build a parser generator sees fit to use JSON as the input syntax.
> I just cannot get that level of insanity into my head. I mean, I can understand XML folk abusing XML like that, but this is a *parser* person using *JSON*.
> It's nuts.
>
> Is there a more readable syntax for TLA+ somewhere?
>
> Clifford Heath.
>
> > On 5 Sep 2021, at 1:23 am, Andrew Helwer <andrew...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > You may also be interested in using the TLA+ tree-sitter grammar: https://github.com/tlaplus-community/tree-sitter-tlaplus/
> >
> > Andrew
> >
> > On Thursday, September 2, 2021 at 4:40:48 AM UTC-7 zhin...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > At present, we are preparing to develop a plug-in for TLA+ Toolbox, which is mainly used for automatic prompting of TLA+ grammar and format checking and prompting. Are there relevant plug-in development materials?
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