Re: [Cpptool-develop] Back on CPP-Refactoring ...

[Baptiste L. <gai...@fr...>]

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From: "Andre Baresel" <and...@gm...>
To: "CppTool Mailing List" <Cpp...@li...>
Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2003 1:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Cpptool-develop] Back on CPP-Refactoring ...


> > [...]
> >The interesting part is that you can still write 'hand written' parser=
 to
> >handle real weird case if needed. There is still much to work out, but
it's
> >really promising.
> >
> Sounds interesting - well it's good to have you, just so open minded to
> even throw away ugly looking
> code ;-) ... Sometimes I'm not so relaxed - since so much time has been
> spend on the written code ...
> But I like your idea. It's looking much more simple than the complex
> stuff in the declaration parser.

I like to think that I managed to keep the feature that worked well (leve=
l
of detail parsing, recursive LL descendent parser), and discarded the
feature that got in the way (lazy parsing (it's an optimisation. Can be
reintroduced anyway), explicit node type/properties declaration (ASTNodes
stuff) ).

There is still some features to add:
- balanced brace matching with subparsing of brace content and creation o=
f
an 'error' node if subparsing failed.
- probably extend the parse stuff so that the parser can match 'node tree=
'
as well as token. This would allow us to roughly parse an expression whic=
h
failed to be parsed as an expression and extract the 'qualified
identifier...'

I started debugging some of the expression parsing. As I expected there i=
s a
need to introduce a 'match longuest alternative' parser (on the way).

> At the moment I would like to work a little bit on the refactoring
> features, just to show that

Could you clarify, I'm not sure I understand what you'll be working on
exactly.

> the things are going on there, too. btw) I've checked again the eclipse
> pages for CDT (that the C/C++
> Developer Plugin). At the moment their implementation is planned to wor=
k
> with an XML representation
> of the parsed C/C++ code.

> this weekend is so hot here in berlin - 35 degrees.
Well, here in Paris we have been cooking under 35-40 degress for the last
two weeks...

Well, it's time for me to take some vacantion. I'll be away for the next =
two
weeks.

Baptiste.

> until later,
> Andr=E9