incremental parsing

[Christoph Cullmann]

On Saturday 23 March 2002 14:33, Roberto Raggi wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> On Saturday 23 March 2002 13:23, Thomas Schilling wrote:
> > Hi Roberto!
> >
> > You referenced a quite interesting document on berkley
> > about an incremental parsing algorithm. (You should then
> > also have a pdf document called "Practical Algorithms for
> > Incremental Software Development Environments" by the
> > same author Tim A. Wagner - if you haven't I think i can
> > give you the url.)
>
> yes i have it
>
> > It sounds really powerful but what do you think are it's
> > great advantages towards little reparses in memory?
> > For code completion we would still need a class store
> > (i think) and it would be really much effort to implement
> > while i still don't see that great advantages.
> > (We need a kind of versioning system for every file in
> > the editor, an incremental lexer, a parse tree for every
> > open document (and maybe even referenced documents)
> > and, of cause, also the incremental parser, which, if based
> > on e.g. bison, also wouldn't be that fast since it operates
> > on files on disk, AFAIK.
>
> i want use as "incremental lexer" the kate highlight engine(in fact the
> highlighter shows the document model), but  kate hides line/context
> attributes :-(
We could create a Highlighting Extension for kdevelop and include it in the 
ktexteditor or kate interfaces for 3.1 (as it would be an additional thingy 
it wouldn't break bc) If you want such a thing, write it and mail it ;)

>
> ciao robe
>
>
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