Source Scanner...

I have just started to look at the NetBeans sources, and hopefully
contribute to the project....

The first think I laid my eyes on was the SourceScanner-feature, in which
I found some (in my eyes) unexpected behaviour.

1. It creates tasks for "tags" that do not reside in a comment block.
2. It includes the complete line where it found the tag as a task, causing
"normal" entries to look like:
* @todo blah
// @todo bla
I would prefer to strip everything up to the the start tag.

I have created a version that "fixes" these two things, but I encountered
another "theoretical" problem during my tests...

/* @todo blah */ int i = 0; /* @todo optimize this thing */

The "old" version of the source scanner would then insert the whole line
as a task, while my method would just get the first entry (since I cannot
have  multiple tasks on a single source line). (It is however not a big
problem for me to concatinate the two strings, and get the following task:

@todo blah @todo optimize this thing

But who writes such code anyway....

And now the big question:

Does anyone else agree with me?


Trond Norbye