Re: FWD:Re: refactoring

Joel de Guzman <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.documentation.synopsis
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Vladimir Prus wrote:
> On Thursday 24 March 2005 20:17, Hartmut Kaiser wrote:
> 
>>Stefan Seefeld wrote:
>>
>>>I agree. I was actually thinking of traces of all the
>>>decisions a compiler does implicitely when looking up
>>>symbols, instantiating templates (SFINAE !), etc., because
>>>without these a generated error may be quite misleading.
>>>Concept checks would be nice, too. I wonder how Richard
>>>Kelly's work with synopsis is going...
>>
>>The information which I'm really missing most of the time is:
>>
>>1) which type actually got instantiated and at which instantiation point
>>2) which parameter types a certain template function got instantiated with
>>
>>Certainly, both of which can be deduced by special tricks, but it would be
>>very useful to have this information more easily available.
> 
> 
> Given that templates can be considered a programming language, it would be 
> nice to have a debugger like gdb for them.
> 
> Say, this should be possible:
> 
[...]

This is a natural offshoot of what I was alluding to in my
other post re: interpreting the C++ meta template language.

Cheers,
-- 
Joel de Guzman
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