Re: "Font-lock is limited to text matching" is a myth

[Lennart Borgman]

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 8:04 PM, <address@hidden> wrote:
> Daniel Colascione <address@hidden> writes:
>
>
>> - full parsers belong in the CEDET infrastructure where they can be
>> accessed via a common API
>> - if this API is not rich enough, it ought to be extended
>> - normal major modes shouldn't rely on rigid grammars because that
>> makes them brittle. Anything that needs such a grammar should be an
>> optional and preferably generic minor-mode
>>
>> (I still think it'd be worthwhile to include the JS2 parser in CEDET,
>> which supports parsers not necessarily generated with wisent or bison.
>> It seems robust in its problem domain.)
>
> Small piece of information: CEDET already includes a Javascript parser
> that I provided some time ago.


What benefits do the different approaches (your CEDET Semantic
Javascript parser and JS2, maybe also a theoretical sub-process rhino
(or similar) parser) have?