Improvement: Replaced "priority" with TokenType

* Made implementation more expressive by replacing the integer priority with an strictly typed enum called TokenType
** Made removal of character comparisons from tree construction and lexer possible
* As a side effect distinct numbers had to be assigned to each token
** Operators of same priority do not have identical numbers anymore

3 files changed, 44 insertions, 32 deletions

diff --git a/src/tree.cc b/src/tree.cc
index 1dcfca6..0f5c2d8 100644
--- a/src/tree.cc
+++ b/src/tree.cc
@@ -111,21 +111,19 @@ Node* Tree::buildTree(std::string term) {
 	std::vector<std::string> tmpLexer;
 	std::vector<std::string> lexerOutput = lexer(term);
 
-	int8_t priority;
-
 	for ( auto termIter = lexerOutput.begin();
 	      termIter     != lexerOutput.end();
 	      termIter++ ) {
-		std::string& currTerm = (*termIter);
-		priority              = getPriority(currTerm[0]);
+		const std::string& currTerm = (*termIter);
+		const TokenType token       = getTokenType(currTerm[0]);
 
-		if ( priority != -1 && (*termIter).size() == 1 ) {
+		if ( token != TokenType::VALUE_NUMBER && (*termIter).size() == 1 ) {
 			if ( !operatorStack.empty() ) {
 				OperatorNode* lastNode(
 					static_cast<OperatorNode*>(topNodeFrom(operatorStack))
 				);
 
-				if ( getPriority(lastNode->getFunction()) < priority ) {
+				if ( token > getTokenType(lastNode->getFunction()) ) {
 					operatorStack.push( 
 						this->addOperator(nullptr, currTerm[0])
 					);
diff --git a/src/utils.cc b/src/utils.cc
index 7457ae2..112bc20 100644
--- a/src/utils.cc
+++ b/src/utils.cc
@@ -5,26 +5,26 @@
 
 namespace SimpleParser {
 
-int8_t getPriority(char tmp) {
+TokenType getTokenType(char tmp) {
 	switch ( tmp ) {
 		case '-':
-			return 10;
+			return TokenType::OPERATOR_PLUS;
 		case '+':
-			return 10;
+			return TokenType::OPERATOR_MINUS;
 		case '/':
-			return 20;
+			return TokenType::OPERATOR_DIVIDE;
 		case '*':
-			return 20;
+			return TokenType::OPERATOR_MULTIPLY;
 		case '^':
-			return 30;
+			return TokenType::OPERATOR_POWER;
 		case '(':
-			return 90;
+			return TokenType::PARENTHESES_OPEN;
 		case ')':
-			return 90;
+			return TokenType::PARENTHESES_CLOSE;
 		case ',':
-			return -1;
+			return TokenType::VALUE_NUMBER;
 		default:
-			return -1;
+			return TokenType::VALUE_NUMBER;
 	}
 }
 
@@ -32,31 +32,33 @@ std::vector<std::string> lexer(std::string term) {
 	std::string tmp;
 	std::string tmpNum;
 	std::vector<std::string> output;
+	TokenType token;
+	TokenType lastToken;
 
-	int8_t   priority     = 0;
-	int8_t   lastPriority = 0;
-	uint32_t level        = 0;
+	uint32_t level = 0;
 
 	for ( auto termIter = term.begin();
 	      termIter     != term.end();
 	      termIter++ ) {
-		priority = getPriority(*termIter);
+		token = getTokenType(*termIter);
 
-		if ( priority == -1 || ( termIter == term.begin() &&
-		                         priority == 10 ) ) {
+		if ( token    == TokenType::VALUE_NUMBER   ||
+		   ( token    == TokenType::OPERATOR_MINUS &&
+		     termIter == term.begin() ) ) {
 			if ( level > 0 ) {
 				tmp += *termIter;
 			} else {
 				tmpNum += *termIter;
 			}
 		} else {
-			if ( lastPriority == -1 && level == 0 ) {
+			if ( lastToken == TokenType::VALUE_NUMBER &&
+			     level     == 0 ) {
 				output.push_back(tmpNum);
 				tmpNum.clear();
 			}
 
-			switch ( *termIter ) {
-				case '(': {
+			switch ( token ) {
+				case TokenType::PARENTHESES_OPEN: {
 					if ( level > 0 ) {
 						tmp += *termIter;
 					}
@@ -65,7 +67,7 @@ std::vector<std::string> lexer(std::string term) {
 
 					break;
 				}
-				case ')': {
+				case TokenType::PARENTHESES_CLOSE: {
 					level--;
 
 					if ( level == 0 ) {
@@ -92,20 +94,21 @@ std::vector<std::string> lexer(std::string term) {
 			}
 		}
 
-		lastPriority = priority;
+		lastToken = token;
 	}
 
-	if ( lastPriority == -1 ) {
+	if ( lastToken == TokenType::VALUE_NUMBER ) {
 		output.push_back(tmpNum);
-	} else if ( lastPriority != 90 ) {
+	} else if ( lastToken != TokenType::PARENTHESES_CLOSE ) {
 		throw operator_exception();
 	}
 
-	if (level != 0) {
+	if ( level != 0 ) {
 		throw parenthese_exception();
 	}
 
-	if ( lastPriority == 90 && output.size() == 1 ) {
+	if ( lastToken     == TokenType::PARENTHESES_CLOSE &&
+	     output.size() == 1 ) {
 		output = lexer(output[0]);
 	}
 
diff --git a/src/utils.h b/src/utils.h
index f71c835..6e43605 100644
--- a/src/utils.h
+++ b/src/utils.h
@@ -8,7 +8,18 @@
 
 namespace SimpleParser {
 
-int8_t getPriority(char);
+enum class TokenType : int8_t {
+	OPERATOR_PLUS     = 10,
+	OPERATOR_MINUS    = 11,
+	OPERATOR_DIVIDE   = 20,
+	OPERATOR_MULTIPLY = 21,
+	OPERATOR_POWER    = 30,
+	PARENTHESES_OPEN  = 90,
+	PARENTHESES_CLOSE = 91,
+	VALUE_NUMBER      = -1,
+};
+
+TokenType getTokenType(char);
 std::vector<std::string> lexer(std::string);
 
 }