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[Stefan Ciobaca <stefan.ciobaca AT gmail.com>]

Unfortunately, the stream="stdin" functionality works only with Ints
and Strings.

To solve your problem, try to read a string and convert it to Type afterwords.


Cheers,
Stefan

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 3:43 PM, William Mansky 
<mansky1 AT illinois.edu>
 wrote:
> I'm working on writing some K definitions for a custom language, and I'm
> running into some weird errors. In particular, I'm trying to use the stdin
> stream to input some data from the user, but it seems like any input
> involving user-defined syntax fails to parse. I've shown a minimal example
> below. Does anyone know whether I'm making a mistake here, or whether this
> is a limitation of the current version of K?
>
>
> module DUD
>
>   syntax Type ::= "word"
>
>   configuration <T color="yellow">
>                   <k> .K </k>
>                   <in color="magenta" stream="stdin"> .List </in>
>                   <data> .K </data>
>                 </T>
>
>   rule <in> ListItem(X:Type) => . ...</in>
>        <data> . => X </data>
>
> endmodule
>
>
> When I run a sample program (the content is ignored, so irrelevant) and
> enter "word" (without the quotes), the result is a stuck configuration
> containing the term #parseToken("Type", "word") in <in>, rather than, as I'd
> hope, the term "word" in <data>. Any advice would be appreciated.
>
>
> Thanks,
> William
>
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