Re: Re: software design clarification

Markus Elfring wrote:
> I am interested in the transformation of a platform-independent model
> (PIM) to a platform-dependent model (PSM) of your software. How do you
> think about to present the high-level concepts and relationships that
> will be mapped to target programming languages like C++ and Python in
> your developer guide? Would the completion of the design for the
> component "SymbolTable" be an interesting use case for this approach?

I strongly doubt it, but I may misunderstand what you have in mind.
The Symbol Table, as well as Parse Tree, and Type Repository, are
very much C++-specific (i.e. they need to implement the semantics
of the C++ specification).

On the other hand, the higher level representation(s) like what we
currently call AST (but which is quite misleading, as here S stands for
Syntax, which is precisely what the A as Abstract abstracts away :-) ),
strives for language independence, as much as is practical. (We currently
support C, C++, Python, and IDL, and other languages could possibly be
added, if someone contributes parsers for them.)

Not sure whether that is what you mean by 'platform-independent' vs.
'platform-dependent'.

Regards,
		Stefan

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