From: Matt Jessick <mjessick@...>
Date: 2011-12-11T00:59:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Treetop - parsing to nil result

Clifford Heath wrote in post #982088:
> It's important to develop these grammars incrementally.
> Clifford Heath, Treetop maintainer.

Thanks for the debugging hints - just the suggestions I was looking for.

My first Treetop attempt was parsing "W083.29.44.999".

Unfortuantely, the first rule I had whipped out in my excitement at 
getting started was:
  rule digit
    [1-9]
  end

Luckily, following Clifford's advice, my first Test::Unit test was that 
ancient rule all the way down in the grammar file:

def test__digit__0_parses
  result = @parser.parse("0", :root=> "digit", :consume_all_input => 
true)
  assert_not_nil(result)
end

Oh well, on to the less lucky bugs! :)

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