Spin syntax: are multi-line statements a thing?

Andrey Demenev

I am trying to put together a simple tokenizer for syntax highlighting purposes, and from what I have seen, statements cannot span multiple lines. Is that true? That would make my code a bit simpler

macca

Three dots can be used to ignore the rest of the line and continue parsing into the next line (from Spin2 documentation).

  STRUCT dir_entry_t(BYTE name[8], BYTE ext[3], BYTE attr, BYTE ntRes, BYTE crtTenth,  ...
    WORD crtTime, WORD crtDate, WORD accDate, WORD clusHI,                             ...
    WORD wrtTime, WORD wrtDate, WORD clusLO, LONG fileSize)

ke4pjw

@macca said:
Three dots can be used to ignore the rest of the line and continue parsing into the next line (from Spin2 documentation).

I wish I had known that. I have done silly things like.....

mask_info_H { // 16 bytes — Level H format information words, masks 0-7 }
word     5769, {// Mask H-0 (001011010001001)
}         5054, {// Mask H-1 (001001110111110)
}         7399, {// Mask H-2 (001110011100111)
}         6608, {// Mask H-3 (001100111010000)
}         1890, {// Mask H-4 (000011101100010)
}          597, {// Mask H-5 (000001001010101)
}         3340, {// Mask H-6 (000110100001100)
}         2107  {// Mask H-7 (000100000111011)}

I really should sit down and read the whole Spin2 Doc

Andrey Demenev

@macca said:
Three dots can be used to ignore the rest of the line and continue parsing into the next line

Thanks!

JonnyMac

Of the many nice things about Spin Tools, yesterday I -- without thinking -- used the ellipsis to extend a line in a P1 program and found it works. Note that it does not work for the P1 in Propeller Tool.