UDL and comments

Alan Bourke

Hello again.

This dialect of BASIC that I am creating a UDL for has three types of comment denoted by:

REM
;
'

Everything after one of those until EOL is treated as a comment, i.e.

REM Print a string
print "hello"

or

print "hello"  :  rem Print a string

That’s easy enough. The problem is with the single quote which needs to denote a comment but also has another meaning when enclosing a single character (think of it as similar to evaluating to an ASCII code):

print 'a'   ; This will print 55

It also works with special character sequences in braces:

print '{white}'    ; This will print 5

I would like to style those cases differently, however it seems to be beyond the scope of the UDL system to handle this, would that be correct ?

Ekopalypse

@Alan-Bourke

You are right, that is one of the limitations.
One way around this limitation would be to use the EnhanceAnyLexer plugin, of which I am the author, and define a regex that matches anything within a beginning ' and closing ' character.