S/SL Syntax Support VSCODE

This extension adds basic support to VS Code for the S/SL langauge.

The Syntax/Semantic Language (S/SL) is an executable high level specification language for recursive descent parsers, semantic analyzers and code generators developed by James Cordy, Ric Holt and David Wortman at the University of Toronto in 1980.

Features

Adds basic syntax support for .ssl and .def files in VS Code.

Known Issues

None!

Release Notes

1.0.0

Initial release of S/SL language support

1.0.1

Add .def support

Add basic icon

1.0.2

Add support for functions

Change token type of '*' to represent control

Add support for '?' character

Clean up some missed tokens

1.0.3

Add support for function parameters

Use word bounds to ensure proper matching on tokens and numbers

Simplify regex

1.0.4

Fix syntax highlighting for functions followed by comments

Testing Locally

• Make sure the language configuration settings in language-configuration.json are accurate.
• Press F5 to open a new window with your extension loaded.
• Create a new file with a file name suffix matching your language.
• Verify that syntax highlighting works and that the language configuration settings are working.