Re: Re: software design clarification

Markus Elfring wrote:
> 
>> 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?

Are you asking about the development process or the resulting design &
implementation ? (Sorry to repeat myself, but I still fail to understand
the goal of this whole discussion. What are you aiming at ?)

>> 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?

No.

Regards,
		Stefan

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