Pep and Nom

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Information about the PEP virtual machine and it’s elements.

pep.accumulator.html

The accumulator : a PEP register for simple counting.

pep.chars.html

The 'chars' register: automatic character counter of the PEP machine.

pep.delimiter.html

The (grammar) parse-token delimiter register in the PEP machine

pep.flag.html

The 'flag' register: an internal PEP machine register.

pep.lines.html

The pep virtual machine maintains an automatic count of the number of lines which have been read from the input stream. This line-count is kept in the lines register of the virtual machine. You can access this register with the lines command and the nolines command.

pep.machine.html

An overview of the elements of the PEP virtual machine

pep.peep.html

The peep buffer is a single character buffer which stores the next character in the input stream. When a read command is performed the current value of the peep buffer is appended to the workspace buffer and the next character from the input stream is placed into the peep buffer.

pep.stack.html

The stack within the Pep machine (Parsing Engine for Patterns) is a stack of strings which can be pushed and popped The pep stack is designed to work in conjuction with, and be synchronized to the pep tape (which is an array of strings with a pointer to the current tape-cell)

pep.tape.html

The 'Tape': a string array structure in the PEP machine.

pep.workspace.html

The workspace : a string manipulation buffer in the PEP machine