On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:29:43 +0200 (CEST) Michael Van Canneyt <mich...@freepascal.org> wrote:
> > > On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Marco van de Voort wrote: > > > In our previous episode, Michael Van Canneyt said: > >> Timing: > >> The codetools of the IDE were developed before fcl-passrc was fully > >> developed. > >> > >> Maybe now the fcl-passrc parser is at a stage where it becomes an > >> option to use it in the IDE. No. The fcl-passrc is not optimized for speed (it uses TList and creates a lot of strings) and I would estimate it supports only half of the fpc languages features. > > Hmm, I thought that it was because fcl-passrc is for code that is mostly > > correct, while an editor parser (e.g. highlighting etc) must be able to > > recover to a sane (but not necessarily 100% correct) state after errors? > > That is certainly an element; Although I don't think the highlighter > uses the codetools, as it is based on synedit. The codetools themselves > are much less forgiving about wrong code. It's usually impossible to get > any of the codetools to work if there is an error in the code somewhere, > and not necessarily in the unit that you happen to be working in. The idea is to help find errors early. It helps me a lot. Maybe not that much for others. But I plan to add some more skips/ignores. Mattias _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
