Incorrect parsing in the "language" series

[amosonn]

This is maybe not the best place, but I couldn't find a repo for the contents of the language being implemented.

Currently, letaaa=1+2 would also be accepted. A workaround would be using the tag let (with space), a better approach would be to have extract_white_space(min=1) or so.

Perhaps it is planned to address this later, but it's worth to at least add mention for now.

[lunacookies]

Ah, thanks for the bug report. While I was writing the parser I realised this would happen, but decided to hope no-one would notice and leave it for the parser rewrite. I still think this is the best course of action, but maybe it’s worth leaving a footnote saying that the issue is acknowledged, but that it won’t be addressed until later. What do you think?

I couldn't find a repo for the contents of the language being implemented.

There’s a link to it on the Make A Language index page thing, but maybe I should make it more prominent. Where do you think would be a good place to put it?

[amosonn]

I got to the blog-posts through TWiR, so I never saw the landing page. I think I would have expected it also in the 1st blog-post. But as it is, I just searched for it in your repos, and still didn't find it; I guess this one's on me :)

If you're rewriting the parser anyway, then it's probably not worth the trouble; but I think a footnote is in order, this is after all a shortcoming of the current one, perhaps all-the-more reason for rewriting?

If you are deleting parts of the code, I guess that begs the question, how are you going to structure it in the repo? Someone reading Post 2 might want to look through the full code at that point, even if you're already at Post 7. One option would be to have branches for each post; the other would be to use specific commit hashes, and then you'll also have a link to the repo in each post (at the end, probably).

[lunacookies]

I addressed this in part four of the series. Do you think it’s worth adding a footnote to where the bug was introduced?