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Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 11:07:26 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux)

Daniel Colascione <address@hidden> writes:

> On 02/28/2014 01:13 AM, David Kastrup wrote:
>> When one declaration changes the meaning and syntax of a program all
>> over one file (and yes, this sort of thing _can_ happen with C++),
>> getting things right might require a full-file parse.  When presented
>> with a preexisting C++ file, being able to get the actual meaning out
>> by the use of exhaustive tools is nice.  When _writing_ a C++
>> program, it's preferable to stay away from those edges and thus get
>> along with more simplistic tools.  Or even none at all.
>
> You might believe that --- and you may even be right --- but your
> personal prescriptions for software development shouldn't affect the
> feature-set of a generic editor.

Ultimately, reality will affect the feature set of a generic editor.
Any feature that requires per-keystroke reparsing of the entire
compilation unit to work is not feasible in an editing workflow.  That
kind of thing is ok for code browsing, not for writing.

At any rate, it was Óscar's claim that it is so utterly absurd to state
being a regular C++ programmer when one does not rely on code-explaining
support tools that he basically called Eli a fraud.

That's a bit stronger than "personal prescriptions for software
development".

-- 
David Kastrup



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