Re: BTW:ASIS (Looking for Ada source browser

["Ira D. Baxter" <idbaxter@semdesigns.com>]

The DMS Reengineering Toolkit is somewhat like ASIS, but
works with many languages, including Ada.
After parsing a language, it automatically builds trees,
that are stamped with source file/line/column position
information.  It also retains comments, and formatting
properties of literals (radix, leading zero count, etc.)
Using the source line information, you could fetch
the original source line.  DMS can also prettyprint
subtrees, either rearranging the text as a "beautifier",
or preserving the text shape ("fidelity printing"),
so you can reconstruct the line *without* going
back to the file.   DMS can also apply program
transformations written in the source language syntax,
before prettyprinting the final result.

See http://www.semdesigns.com/Products/DMS/DMSToolkit.html.

--
Ira D. Baxter, Ph.D. CTO Semantic Designs, Inc.
http://www.semdesigns.com


"Peter Hermann" <ica2ph@iris16.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote in message
news:9c9cdf$kf4$1@infosun2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de...
> Marc A. Criley <mcqada@earthlink.net> wrote:
> > Peter Hermann wrote:
> >> How far does ASIS support references to source code lines
> >> and their original preservation?
> [snip]
> > Are you asking if you can extract a line of source code text 'as
> > written'?
> yes: "as written", for purposes when there is a need to refer
> to the very original source text.