Why column is called row?
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matkoniecz commented
Why column is called row
? It appears in what astInfoOrNull
returns.
Is it some slang/peculiarity in among parser writers? Or some typo? Or maybe I am mistaken about how English works?
I expected lines and columns, not lines and rows. And would expect row to be synonym of line, not of column.
BTW, #21 seems implemented and looks like it can be closed
wider explanation if above is unclear
With
private fun Ast.root(): Ast? {
var returned: Ast? = null
this.summary(false).onSuccess { returned = it.firstOrNull() }
return returned
}
one may extract line and column with following code
private fun Ast.humanReadableDescription(): String {
val current = this.root() ?: return "NULL"
return "${current.astInfoOrNull!!.start.line} ${current.astInfoOrNull!!.start.row}"
}
(I know that I can also use description
- but that is not allowing me to format things like I want, in this case it is intended as the first step toward clear matching with parsed text)
I have just one question - why column is called row?