Re: ASIS?

[parthaspanda22@gmail.com]

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> 2) The ASIS interface can only be provided on legal, compiling program
>    text.  Any program with compile-time errors in it would be
>    impossible to browse (using the source browser) and the editor
>    would have to be particularly smart in deciding when to call the
>    compiler to regerenate the ASIS information.

There is a solution to this:

1) If a file compiles successfully, then use ASIS.
2) If a file compiles with errors then first use ASIS and then do
grep.

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> 3) In the worst of cases, regenerating the ASIS data can cause massive
>    recompilations and be too slow for interactive use.

The key to this is how thin a layer ASIS is. Regenerating of "ASIS
data"
sounds like data transformation: from an AST to ASIS objects.
Perhaps, this can be avoided.

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> > Is a C interface available?
>
> Not that I know.  Why do you ask?

There is some mention of JSIS(Java) but the link leads
to an unrelated site. A C interface would be very handy
for a C implementation.

Thanks.