[Lxr-dev] Re: [Lxr-commits] CVS: lxr/lib/LXR Lang.pm,1.25,1.26

[Jan-Benedict G. <jb...@lu...>]

On Wed, 2002-01-23 23:22:47 +0900, Malcolm Box <ma...@br...>
wrote in message <3C4...@br...>:

Hi,

> Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> >Spoken C'ish, there's an array of structs in lxr.conf (sorry,
> >I'm not Perl-enabled...) containing language descriptions. This
> >includes some possible filename extensions which are almost
> >reasonable. Why don't we add a struct member called "interpreters"
> >containing a list of possible interpreters, if there's not a match
> >for the filename extension.
> >
> Do you mean that this would be a seperate meta-language called 
> 'interpreters', or that the perl/bash etc entries would also include 
> their interpreter strings?

I would do the later one. I think it's quite easier to do it
that way around...

> >Lang.pm does this exceptional for Perl, I'd like to see this behavior
> >to be a bit more flexible by scanning over thise things there in
> >lxr.conf. There's no need for a perl script to end up in .pl, equally
> >there's no need for s shell script to end up in .sh. So why don't we
> >generally also test for a shell bang (if there's no extension)?
> >
> One way to do this of course is simply to extend Lang.pm - it's pretty 
> trivial, though not exactly flexible.
> 
> I think the best way to do it is to have an 'interpreters' entry in 
> lxr.conf that maps between potential #! strings and languages.  Then to 

That's fine with me, too:-)

> get the right info, just look the language name back up in the filetype 
> mapping.  This avoids having to specify things like the module or 
> tabwidth twice, without the overhead of looking at the first line of the 
> file if the filename mapping works out.
> 
> In fact, I'm so inspired I'll even code it.  How's the for volunteers?

Oh yes, please, do it. I like it, but I can't do it. I've looked
at Perl several times, I always failed. My braindumps look more
like C...

MfG, JBG

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