PAS
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Pascal Preview.
At a glance
| Purpose | Pascal or Delphi source code: a program, unit or library (.pas, .pp, .dpr, .lpr). |
| Extensions | .pas |
| Poka parser | poka-pas |
| Viewer | poka-metadata-card-viewer |
| Depth tier | Metadata card (see Depth tiers) |
| Breadth tier | B4 Summary (see Breadth tiers) |
How much Poka reads
B4 Summary. The container and metadata are read and summarised (counts, properties, structure), but the main content is not rendered.
Confidence: medium (the reviewer read the code). Basis: Reviewed 2026-10-26: read parsers/poka-pas/src/main.rs (379 lines) and plugin.json in full. The crate has no unit tests and no tests/samples.rs, and the corpus has no .pas, .pp, .dpr and .lpr sample, so the tier rests on reading the code. Covers .pas, .pp, .dpr and .lpr. The output is a metadata card of counts found by matching text line by line: the kind (program, unit or library) and its name, sections, uses clauses, procedures, functions, types, classes, records, const and var sections, begin…end blocks, compiler directives and line counts. Judgement: B4, because the structure is summarised but the source itself is never shown.
What Poka does not read
- The source text is not shown: the card carries only counts and a few sample names, with no code view or highlighting
- Constructs are found by matching text line by line, not by parsing, so multi-line declarations, nested or indented definitions and keywords inside strings or comments can be miscounted
- Counts of named items stop where their name list is capped (procedures at 32, functions at 32, types at 32), so a larger file under-reports them
- Files over 32 MiB are cut to the first 32 MiB (the card says so)
- Text that is not UTF-8 is decoded with replacement characters; no other encoding is tried
- Delphi form files (.dfm) that go with a unit are not read
Libraries
Libraries Poka uses or has assessed for this format, with the status, licence and language the registry records.
- tree-sitter-pascal (candidate; MIT; JavaScript/C; https://github.com/Isopod/tree-sitter-pascal) — Tree-sitter grammar for Pascal, Delphi and Free Pascal; Rust, Python, Node and other bindings; activity not confirmed
Sources
- parsers/poka-pas/src/main.rs
- parsers/poka-pas/plugin.json