c++ code completion status report

[Eray Ozkural (exa)]

On Sunday 06 January 2002 18:22, Richard Dale wrote:
>
> Yes, I don't think LR(k) is suitable for implementing prolog style
> non-deterministic parsers. Accent is effectively a combination of LL(1) and
> LR(1), but still deterministic.
>
> It should be so quick to parse a complete source file with bison when a
> user wants to do code completion (eg 0.5s), that my original suggestion
                                                     ^^^^^
> about LL(k) and backtracking doesn't make much sense relative to all the
> extra work involved.
>

Is that 0.5 seconds going to grow when we are dealing with complex codes, 
such as one that #include's a good collection of kde libraries?

Fearsome.

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