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Re: Is intellisense features integration in Emacs technically possible?
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David Engster |
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Re: Is intellisense features integration in Emacs technically possible? |
Date: |
Wed, 22 Jan 2014 19:34:36 +0100 |
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Óscar Fuentes writes:
> David Engster <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>> Writing a C++ parser and semantic analyzer from scratch requires several
>>> man-years of work for world-class compiler writers.
>>
>> You don't need a full parser. For providing completions, it is
>> sufficient to parse only a small subset of the code (declarations, most
>> importantly).
>
> Even for providing completions you need semantic analysis.
Of course you need that. Where did I say otherwise? I'm saying that when
you get parsing of declarations right, and have some good heuristics to
parse the local context, then this will suffice for most cases.
Parsing code like this also has some advantages, mostly that it is more
fault-tolerant. This is actually very important, since while you're
coding, your code will often be syntactically wrong.
> The parser turns to be insufficient on very simple cases:
>
> auto foo = bar();
> foo. ????
Well, type inference is hard. Currently, C++11 isn't on my agenda. But
I'm confident simple cases like the above will be manageable.
> The need for semantic analysis is unavoidable even on the "old" C++ 98:
>
> template <typename T> struct Foo {
> typedef T Type;
> };
>
> struct Bar {
> int something() {
> return 42;
> }
> };
>
> void some_func() {
> typename Foo<Bar>::Type t;
> t. ???
> }
This will work after I've applied my template patch.
-David
- Re: Is intellisense features integration in Emacs technically possible?, (continued)
- Re: Is intellisense features integration in Emacs technically possible?, David Engster, 2014/01/22
- Re: Is intellisense features integration in Emacs technically possible?, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/01/22
- Re: Is intellisense features integration in Emacs technically possible?, David Engster, 2014/01/22
- Re: Is intellisense features integration in Emacs technically possible?, Dmitry Gutov, 2014/01/22
- Re: Is intellisense features integration in Emacs technically possible?, David Engster, 2014/01/22
- Re: Is intellisense features integration in Emacs technically possible?, Óscar Fuentes, 2014/01/22
- Re: Is intellisense features integration in Emacs technically possible?,
David Engster <=
- Re: Is intellisense features integration in Emacs technically possible?, Andreas Röhler, 2014/01/21
- Re: Is intellisense features integration in Emacs technically possible?, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/01/21
- Re: Is intellisense features integration in Emacs technically possible?, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2014/01/22
- Re: Is intellisense features integration in Emacs technically possible?, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/01/22
- Re: Is intellisense features integration in Emacs technically possible?, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2014/01/23
- Re: Is intellisense features integration in Emacs technically possible?, Phillip Lord, 2014/01/22
- Re: Is intellisense features integration in Emacs technically possible?, Jorgen Schaefer, 2014/01/22
- Re: Is intellisense features integration in Emacs technically possible?, Andreas Röhler, 2014/01/23
- Re: Is intellisense features integration in Emacs technically possible?, Jorgen Schaefer, 2014/01/23
- Re: Is intellisense features integration in Emacs technically possible?, Phillip Lord, 2014/01/23