Re: htags: status line could show better status line

[Yann Dirson - LOGATIQUE]

On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 09:51:36PM +0900, Shigio Yamaguchi wrote:
> > It may as well be than the idea of building an hypertext of a source 
> > including
> > types and variables, is out of the scope of a tag system.  Such a feature 
> > will
> > also require more scope information than we currently have, just in the same
> > way...
> 
> I don't think so.
> I have a plan to treat new objects like types, variables or so on.
> (Please see http://www.tamacom.com/global/plans.html)

Sorry I was not clear - my thoughts were about local variables.  The risk is 
high
to have uses of local vars (that share the same name as a global var somewhere 
else
in the source tree) to be tagged as reference to a global var.

But I come to think that a smart parser can overcome this by detecting 
definitions of
local vars and deciding to ignore this symbol as far as indexing of gloal refs 
is
concerned.


To go further and have an hypertext that links uses of local vars to their defs 
may
still be nice for large functions, but it is this one which does seem to me out 
of scope.


> I think such option is needless.

At least they don't seem to be required for everyday use, but may prove useful 
for
accurate creation of the hypertext.


> > However you've implemented lots of interesting stuff in GLOBAL, which would
> > be a shame to nearly duplicate :(
> 
> Whose shame? and why?
> Sorry but I'm poor at English, so it is help for me to write plainly
> like text book for a schoolchild.

Arg...  Builtin compound keyword in the language - can't describe it easily :(
Should be in the "shame" entry in your nearest dictionary I guess :}

Just meant it would be better not to duplicate too much existing code if I ever
came to try to do better hypertexts :)

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