A hole definition should comprise either a string prefix, suffix, or both which encloses an variable identifier. See example below.

Defines syntax definitions for holes. Zero or more Hole sorts, excluding Regex should have an associated hole_definition. The Regex hole must define a prefix, separator, and suffix. See example below.

A metasyntax comprises:

• identifier where the list of characters are allowed in identifiers. For example, to allow only contiguous capitalized letters as recognized identifiers within some hole syntax, use:

"ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"

• syntax with one or more hole definitions. For example, the default metasyntax for the Everything hole is defined as:

Hole (Everything, Delimited (Some ":[", Some "]"))

A Regex hole must define a prefix, separator, and suffix. The current convention is taken to parse Regex holes as:

<prefix><identifier><separator><regular expression><suffix>

A separator is required to syntactically distinguish arbitrary identifier syntax from regular exressions. A suffix is required to syntactically distinguish when to stop parsing a regular expression and resume parsing the rest of the template.

A module signature for metasyntax to parameterize a matcher

The default metasyntax. It is defined as:

let default_syntax = Hole (Everything, Delimited (Some ":[", Some "]")) ; Hole (Expression, Delimited (Some ":[", Some ":e]")) ; Hole (Alphanum, Delimited (Some ":[[", Some "]]")) ; Hole (Non_space, Delimited (Some ":[", Some ".]")) ; Hole (Line, Delimited (Some ":[", Some "\\n]")) ; Hole (Blank, Delimited (Some ":[ ", Some "]")) ; Regex (":[", '~', "]")

let default_identifier = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789_"

A JSON representation of the metasyntax defintion

create definition creates a metasyntax module from a definition

default returns the default metasyntax module