Re: New Word Generator

Dne Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:07:59 +0200 Benct Philip Jonsson
<conlang@...> napsal/-a:

> On 2007-09-29 Petr Mejzlík wrote:
>> > I'd like to know how the nested parentheses thing works...
>> It works very simply, like parenthses in maths. What's inside a pair
>> of parentheses is treated as a single unit - as if it was a single
>> letter. You can further combine these units and make larger units
>> containing them. A block bordered by [ and ] will always behave like
>> one letter, no matter that it can be rendered as ten letters or even
>> more. Round brackets do the same except that what's inside them
>> either appears in the word or not.
>
> I have no problem with how it works inputwise. I rather
> wonder how the program parses it and translates it into
> conditionals and commands.
There is a function called render() that can either render or count words.
It divides each level of immiersion in the parenthesis structure into
fragments. Each fragment consists of a block in parentheses or a sequence
of letters (with no parentheses within). The render() function calls
itself recursively to get each fragment further broken down into smaller
fragments until there are no parentheses. I can send you the code if you
wish.