Re: [Opencxx-users] test build failure: Ubuntu Dapper Amd64/libtool

[skaller <sk...@us...>]

On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 10:14 -0400, Stefan Seefeld wrote:
> Gilles J. Seguin wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 14:53 -0400, Stefan Seefeld wrote:
> >> skaller wrote:
> >>> On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 14:14 -0400, Stefan Seefeld wrote:
> >>>> skaller wrote:
> > [...]
> >>> In other words it generates an actual parse tree, rather than
> >>> an abstract syntax tree?
> > 
> > the "rather" may mislead, the parse tree is an augmented AST.
> 
> Well, considering how both representations are actually built,
> I would phrase it differently. You don't generate a parse tree
> from an AST by adding to it, but rather, you create an AST by
> removing ('abstracting away') things from the parse tree.

Of course I use the term AST loosely :) In theory it is a 
representation in abstract syntax which has specific 
mathematical properties which few production parser ASTs
actually have.

> Ideally, the tool can generate multiple representations, and let users
> control the processing pipeline, and only build the representation required
> for a particular task.

Of course this is very easy to do in functional language using
folds ..

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