Re: Re: software design clarification

Markus Elfring <[email protected]> Mon, 30 Apr 2007 13:46:14 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.documentation.synopsis
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> As I already tried to point out, what Synopsis is currently missing is
> a completion of the (new) C++ parser, in particular all things relating
> to type analysis. That is much less a matter of design that it is of
> algorithm and implementation. (The design that is missing is really
> internal, and wouldn't be much reflected in the public APIs.)
>   

Your distinction is not so clear for me. Should each design part be 
completed before the components will be implemented in a specific 
programming language or system?


> It's quite easy to come up with a shopping list of things that could
> be queried from the representations such as type repository, once they
> are finished. Basically everything a C++ front-end needs to do, but
> in a scriptable way.

Are the interfaces "XQuery" or "QVT" on your wish list in this context?

Regards,
Markus