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external LSL syntax checking environment (e.g. eclipse plugin)
Greg Hauptmann
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12-12-2005 22:59
external LSL syntax checking environment (e.g. eclipse plugin)

Allows a developer to build scripts OFFLINE with the ability to test ability to COMPILE correctly.

Is this in the pipeline?
SuezanneC Baskerville
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12-13-2005 11:38
Possibly these links will help some:

Editors for LSL

I use SciTE-ez, which is listed on the page linked above

SciTE-ez

Someone needs to punish the person responsible for the capitalization of "SciTE-ez".
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Greg Hauptmann
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12-13-2005 17:00
Looks good, but it doesn't seem to perform a "compile" check? Is this correct?

(I was looking for something that can highlight script errors)
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12-13-2005 22:25
The scintilla based one at one time - i don't know if it still works properly with all the changes - has autocompletion, which can help to reduce compilation errors, and also used to have an automatic look up the word the cursor is on in the LSL wiki, which also reduces the error rate.

I feel sure a real scripter like Christopher Omega, Catherine Omega, Wednesday Grimm, Jeffrey Gomez, and tons more, not a terrible one like me, that is, would know for a fact if what you want exists, and I suspect the answer is no.

So I suspect your feature suggestion is perfectly reasonable.
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Jeffrey Gomez
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12-13-2005 22:51
You rang?


No, an external compiler doesn't exist. I suspect because the headache of creating the compiler workflow from scratch outweighs the forseeable usefulness of the group that would actually use it: LSL nuts that know most of the syntax by heart.


Though if a Linden released the compiler structure, every scripter within ten miles would be on it like flies on shi^H^H^H^H you get the idea.
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12-14-2005 05:48
From: Jeffrey Gomez
Though if a Linden released the compiler structure, every scripter within ten miles would be on it like flies on shi^H^H^H^H you get the idea.
If they released the compiler source, I'd have some of the annoying parser bugs (like, how "a-10" is a syntax error because they're greedy-parsing numbers) fixed in two shakes of an avatar's tail-prim.
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12-14-2005 06:19
Just to clarify, what is being asked for here is not a compiler, one that produces code, but a syntax checker, right?
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12-14-2005 06:40
Well, the basic stuff, brackets and so on, that's not too hard, a lot of checkers do it automatically.

One could write a further program that looked for functions and checked their parameter types in, say, Perl. You could get the checking data from the official LSL guide, just look for function titles and parse them, then the program would run through everything searching for any of those names and flag up any errors. All the editors I use are happy with that sort of plugin.

I doubt I'd use it much myself; while I prefer BBEdit to the SL script editor as an environment, the SL one isn't *that* bad, and being able to instantly compile and test is handy (though adding apple-A apple-C apple-tab click-on-script-editor-window apple-A apple-V isn't that much slower, I'll grant you). Maybe if I ever start doing really large and complex collections of interlocking scripts it would be handy. I'm still at the stage where I make stupid little errors all the time and need to test constantly.
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12-14-2005 12:59
From: SuezanneC Baskerville
Just to clarify, what is being asked for here is not a compiler, one that produces code, but a syntax checker, right?


Yes this is correct. I'm in a position where a portion of the time available I won't have connectivity, but it would be great to keep scripting away with some checking. I know for a fact I'll end up with heaps of errors when I finally get to upload the scripts on line and try to compile :)

Tks