[Opencxx-users] Re: [Synopsis-devel] refining the Synopsis APIs

[David A. <da...@bo...>]

Vladimir Prus <gh...@cs...> writes:

> On Tuesday 26 October 2004 08:16, Stefan Seefeld wrote:
>
>> The Abstract Semantic Graph (*ASG*) is a structure that is built from
>> the AST (or PTree), but where identifiers are cross-referenced to their
>> respective declarations (thus it's a graph, not a tree). 
>
> I think that "Abstract" and  "Semantic" words are all very confusing. 
> Basically, you description of ASG says it's just a set of interlinked C++ 
> objects. Semantic could mean anything, including operational semantic (how 
> i+1 is prorcessed and so on). I'd suggest to name this module just "Objects", 
> or "Entities", to avoid further confusion.

Also, the term AST has a well-known meaning which, I'm pretty sure,
does not constrain it to denote pure trees, nor pure syntax.
Choosing a different meaning in the name of "clarity" might be a bad
idea.

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Dave Abrahams
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