[Opencxx-users] Re: [opencxx] Let's break OpenC++ up

[Shigeru C. <ch...@is...>]

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> Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 12:58:42 -0600
> From: Larry Evans <>
> To: op...@cs...
> Subject: Re: [opencxx] Let's break OpenC++ up
> 
> On 2003-04-23 06:12 Grzegorz Jakacki wrote:
> >  On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, James Michael DuPont wrote:
> [snip]
> >  
> >  I do not think that there is the universal set of types of nodes, perhaps
> >  cons/nil is the only common denominator. It is very much domain dependent
> >  and the framewok should not fix it. Take a look at SLT, which defines just
> >  requirements on types (concepts) of containers. STL algorithms can be used
> >  with any types, not only the ones defined in STL (standard containers'
> >  iterators). For an example: imagine somebody prepared universal set of nodes
> >  for C++ before Chiba invented OpenC++. Now comes Chiba and wants to have
> >  some nodes which represent arbitrary chunks of text inserted into C++ parse
> >  tree. It is very unlikely, that the person who focused on inventing
> >  "universal" C++ parse tree predicted Chiba's requirement. We are in similar
> >  situation.
> My cursory view of this thread suggests that maybe this:
> 
>    http://www.eptacom.net/pubblicazioni/pub_eng/mdisp.html
> 
> would be useful since, quoting from the above, this method:
> 
>    allows new classes to be added without any need to change existing ones
> 
> Another version, hopefully easier to understand, is at:
> 
> http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=387CE74C.B161F6D6%40earthlink.net&output=gplain
> 
>