Re: [RFA] Add language-dependent post-parser

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>]

On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 06:33:45AM -0500, Paul Hilfinger wrote:
> 
> For Ada, we found it convenient to do a name-resolution pass after parsing and
> before evaluation of expressions.  The most convenient form on which to
> perform this resolution is the prefix form (that way, we can use the usual 
> type-computing machinery already included in expression evaluation).  
> Unfortunately, prefixification occurs after and separate from parsing.  
> The obvious thing to do was to add a function to the language vector for
> post-parsing.  For most languages, it does nothing.  The patch below
> does most of the work in inserting this hook, including the introduction
> of a parse-in-type-context function that provides a type context for 
> the post-parser.  In its current form, this patch is a NOP that merely
> provides the hooks.

Could you explain more about why you found this necessary?  It's hard
to evaluate the patch without that.


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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer