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NAME

grammar::fa::dexec - Execute deterministic finite automatons

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SYNOPSIS

package require Tcl 8.5 9
package require snit
package require grammar::fa::dexec ?0.3?

::grammar::fa::dexec daName fa ?-any any? ?-command cmdprefix?
daName option ?arg arg ...?
daName destroy
daName put symbol
daName reset
daName state
cmdprefix error code message
cmdprefix final stateid
cmdprefix reset
cmdprefix state stateid

DESCRIPTION

This package provides a class for executors constructed from deterministic finite automatons (DFA). Executors are objects which are given a string of symbols in a piecemal fashion, perform state transitions and report back when they enter a final state, or find an error in the input. For the actual creation of the DFAs the executors are based on we have the packages grammar::fa and grammar::fa::op.

The objects follow a push model. Symbols are pushed into the executor, and when something important happens, i.e. error occurs, a state transition, or a final state is entered this will be reported via the callback specified via the option -command. Note that conversion of this into a pull model where the environment retrieves messages from the object and the object uses a callback to ask for more symbols is a trivial thing.

Side note: The acceptor objects provided by grammar::fa::dacceptor could have been implemented on top of the executors provided here, but were not, to get a bit more performance (we avoid a number of method calls and the time required for their dispatch).

API

The package exports the API described here.

EXECUTOR METHODS

All executors provide the following methods for their manipulation:

EXECUTOR CALLBACK

The callback command cmdprefix given to an executor via the option -command will be executed by the object at the global level, using the syntax described below. Note that cmdprefix is not simply the name of a command, but a full command prefix. In other words it may contain additional fixed argument words beyond the command word.

EXAMPLES

Bugs, Ideas, Feedback

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KEYWORDS

automaton, execution, finite automaton, grammar, parsing, regular expression, regular grammar, regular languages, running, state, transducer

CATEGORY

Grammars and finite automata

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2004 Andreas Kupries
Copyright © 2007 Bogdan