Re: [Lxr-dev] multi-language identifiers

[Dave B. <da...@br...>]

On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, Malcolm Box wrote:

> Dave Brondsema wrote:
>
> | On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Malcolm Box wrote:
> |>I think that's a misleading comment :-)  The code does a !grep(/^$2$/,
> |>$self->langinfo('reserved')) which should filter out any reserved words
> |>as specified in the language info block.
> |>
> |>So there is a bug in the comment :-)
> |
> | Yes, reserved words are correctly limited to the current language.  But
> | identifiers are not.
>
> Good point - the comment and the problem you originally reported are
> talking about different things:
>
> 1. ignoring any string which is a reserved word when checking if it is a
> symbol
> and
> 2. making the lookup of identifiers language dependent so that if e.g. a
> perl file defines foo and a C file defines foo then the correct one will
> be linked to.
>
> AFAICT the code does the former correctly, but as commented doesn't do
> the latter. This would require tagging each symbol with the language it
> was defined in.  Also suspect that it might break clever code like the
> Javascript/C++ bridging in Mozilla - or at least make the LXR less useful.
>

Right.  It'll be configurable then :-)  The database already holds all the
relationships, the code just has to take advantage of that.

If configured to do so, it should be limited by version too.

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