Patent
1995-07-06
1998-05-05
Burwell, Joseph R.
395789, 395781, 395776, 395701, G06F 1721
Patent
active
057489750
ABSTRACT:
A user-friendly editor for structurally represented computer programs is disclosed. The present editor combines advantages of text editors and structure editors by transforming, as the user types, the event stream entered by the user into a token stream, where the tokens of the token stream constitute the words of the program being entered. Each of the tokens is classified by the editor as one of group of extended lexemes defined by the language in which the program being edited is written. These extended lexemes are defined similar to lexemes that might be used in a batch lexer, but are more numerous as the present editor must account for the incomplete and ill-formed lexemes that arise as the user types the program. Based on information in the token stream, the editor prettyprints the program as the user types. The editor also allows the user to edit the program from the prettyprinted display as if the program were internally represented as text. The present editor also allows the user to periodically request a syntactical analysis of the program, wherein the structure of the program is represented in a syntax tree that references the token stream.
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Burwell Joseph R.
Crisman Douglas J.
Sun Microsystems Inc.
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