vim-poplog

WARNING: WORK IN PROGRESS

This project adds support for the pop11 language to the Vim editor. It handles syntax highlighting for *.p files.

Installation

We recommend you use Plug or another vim plugin manager.

For example, using Plug you would add the following to your ~/.vimrc:

Plug 'GetPoplog/vim-poplog'

Syntax coverage

Each part here corresponds to a railroad diagram from "Pop-11: A practical Language for Artificial Intelligence" (R. Barrett, A. Ramsay, A. Sloman). The syntax in this book is out of date, but it is a good starting point.

Once a railroad diagram has been

• Statement
  • ;
  • =>
  • ==>
• Definition
  • define
  • enddefine
• Assignment
  • ->
  • ->>
  • -->
• Variable
  • nonop
  • nonmac
  • nonsyntax
• Declaration
  • global
  • lvars
  • vars
  • constant
  • lconstant
• Varslist
  • macro
  • syntax
• Sequence
  • ,
  • ;
  • =>
  • ==>
• Literal
• Construct
  • List construct
    • []
    • List segment
      • [% <Sequence> %]
  • Vector construct
    • {}
  • Pattern construct
    • []
    • Pattern segment
    • ?
    • ??
    • =
    • ==
• Label: <word>:
• Jump: goto <word>
• Iterative (i)
  • for
  • step
  • till
  • do
  • endfor
• Iterative (ii)
  • while
  • until
  • for
  • in
  • on
  • from
  • by
  • to
  • foreach
  • endforeach
  • forevery
  • endforevery
  • repeat
  • endrepeat
  • times
  • forever
• Conditional
  • if
  • unless
  • elseif
  • elseunless
  • else
  • then
  • endif
  • endunless
• Boolean expression
  • and
  • or
• Operator expression
• Function application

Further reading

• See ref syntax for a list of syntax words in pop11.
• See Your own syntax highlighted for an excellent guide on writing vim syntax files.