Re: Synopsis roadmap

David Abrahams <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.documentation.synopsis
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Stefan Seefeld <[email protected]> writes:

> David Abrahams wrote:
>> Stefan Seefeld <[email protected]> writes:
>> 
>>>I hope that at least part of this work finds some interest from other developers /
>>>observers. If you want to contribute, either by working on one of these tasks, or
>>>by discussing the current and proposed design, please get in touch
>>>(http://synopsis.fresco.org/contact.html) !
>> I'm more interested in something that we've discussed but that
>> didn't
>> make it onto your list: support for Concepts, using the extended C++
>> syntax proposed by
>> http://www.osl.iu.edu/publications/prints/2005/siek05:_concepts_cpp0x.pdf
>> If I get my way, that syntax will be adopted by C++ anyway.  It's
>> highly compatible with existing C++ syntax, so it should be very easy
>> to modify the existing parser to accomodate it (it's already been done
>> for GCC so we know it's pretty easy).
>
> Indeed, I didn't forget your request, and I plan to work on it. However
> I'm not yet familiar enough with the topic to be able to estimate what
> exactly it involves. Modifying the parser is straight forward, but what
> does an implementation require in terms of type analysis ?

I don't know; Doug Gregor is probably the most qualified person to
answer that.  Doug?

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Dave Abrahams
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