Display names for parser tokens [was Re: CMake and kdebase]

Frans Englich frans.englich at telia.com
Thu Mar 16 20:10:28 CET 2006


On Thursday 16 March 2006 18:16, you wrote:
> Frans Englich wrote:
> > I meant that all the grammars needed to be fixed, not just that file.
> > Attached patch do that, or something in that direction.
>
> [snip]
>
> > (It smells NIH syndrom, I don't get why all these languages needs to be
> > invented/implemented. A build system using Python would have avoided
> > reinventing-wheel bugs, etc, AFAICT.)
>
> I don't see how implementing in python would help parse dependencies of
> Fortran, Java, etc.

Yes, sensible. But it hurts.. It would have been nice if for example gcc could 
have been a dependency such that its frontends could have been used.


Cheers,

		Frans


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