On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 01:12:38AM +0200, Dominique Devriese wrote: > There is one open-source C++ parser, the C++ front-end to GCC, which > is currently able to deal with the language in its entirety.
This isn't true. It can't grok 'export'. > Since XML is easy to > parse, This is also not true. XML is particularly difficult to parse. The *only* mitigating factor is that there are generic XML parsers already implemented for you, and it's hardly alone in that respect. > other development tools will be able to work with C++ programs > without the burden of a complicated C++ parser. This is misleading. What you get is a representation of a "tree" (gcc's first-stage internal representation), which is intended for compiling the code; it is not an accurate representation of the code itself. Notably, the transformation is one-way - you can't generate the original program from a tree structure. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | Dept. of Computing, `. `' | Imperial College, `- -><- | London, UK
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