Re: WAST support on GitHub

On 22 June 2017 at 12:26, John Gardner <gardnerjohng@gmail.com> wrote:

> Should these keywords only be highlighted as such when they're matched at
> the start of an S-expression?
>

Their keyword status does not dependent on context, so I would highlight
them anywhere.

You might also be interested in the draft specification of the lexical
syntax, which gives a few more details:

  https://webassembly.github.io/spec/text/lexical.html

And actually, I just see that the definition of `keyword` there is bogus as
written. :)


On 22 June 2017 at 17:38, Andreas Rossberg <rossberg@google.com> wrote:
>
>> Nice! Some observations:
>>
>> - most module-level keywords seem to be missing, e.g., `global`,
>> `memory`, `table`, `import`, `export` and more
>> - `clz`, `ctz`, `popcnt` are int-only
>> - `lt` is float-only
>> - block comments can nest, but I suspect the highlighting mechanism won't
>> be able to handle that?
>>
>> You can peek at the definition of the lexical grammar in the reference
>> interpreter for regexps and a complete list of tokens:
>>
>> https://github.com/WebAssembly/spec/blob/master/interpreter/
>> text/lexer.mll#L91
>>
>> /Andreas
>>
>>
>>
>> On 22 June 2017 at 07:03, John Gardner <gardnerjohng@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> GitHub limits filetype recognition to text-based formats only, meaning
>>> binary files are skipped when calculating a repository's usage statistics.
>>> So it would've been pointless to include .wasm as a recognised
>>> extension.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 22 June 2017 at 14:44, Wink Saville <wink@saville.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Did you consider tracking .wasm files, the binary format for .wast? It
>>>> should be fairly easy to incorporate wasm2wast to convert .wasm -> .wast on
>>>> the fly?
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 7:14 PM John Gardner <gardnerjohng@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello!
>>>>>
>>>>> I meant to give a heads up nearly a month ago, but better late than
>>>>> never... Just to inform you all that WebAssembly will soon be
>>>>> formally classified on GitHub
>>>>> <https://github.com/github/linguist/pull/3650>.
>>>>>
>>>>> This has two (admittedly superficial) benefits:
>>>>>
>>>>>    1. It will now be possible to search for "WebAssembly" repos on
>>>>>    GitHub, which should also facilitate gauging the language's in-the-wild use
>>>>>    (at least as far as .wast and .wat files are concerned).
>>>>>    2. .wast and .wat files will now receive syntax highlighting using
>>>>>    a language-grammar hand-written
>>>>>    <https://github.com/Alhadis/language-webassembly> by yours truly.
>>>>>
>>>>> If there are any corrections or updates that should be made to the
>>>>> grammar's highlighting, please file an issue and I'll fix it as soon as
>>>>> possible. =)
>>>>>
>>>>> (The changes will be live on GitHub with the next release of Linguist
>>>>> <https://github.com/github/linguist>. We don't have a concrete
>>>>> release schedule, but it generally happens every few weeks or so...)
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> - John / @Alhadis <http://github.com/Alhadis>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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