Re: refining the Synopsis APIs

David Abrahams wrote:

>Vladimir Prus <[email protected]> writes:
>
>>On Tuesday 26 October 2004 08:16, Stefan Seefeld wrote:
>>
>>>The Abstract Semantic Graph (*ASG*) is a structure that is built from
>>>the AST (or PTree), but where identifiers are cross-referenced to their
>>>respective declarations (thus it's a graph, not a tree). 
>>
>>I think that "Abstract" and  "Semantic" words are all very confusing. 
>>Basically, you description of ASG says it's just a set of interlinked C++ 
>>objects. Semantic could mean anything, including operational semantic (how

>>i+1 is prorcessed and so on). I'd suggest to name this module just
"Objects", 
>>or "Entities", to avoid further confusion.
>
>
>Also, the term AST has a well-known meaning which, I'm pretty sure,
>does not constrain it to denote pure trees, nor pure syntax.
>Choosing a different meaning in the name of "clarity" might be a bad
>idea.

Are you suggesting that my interpretation of 'AST' as I described it
is different from the conventional use ? Or that using both terms (AST
as well as ASG) together is a bad idea ?

Regards,
		Stefan