[Lazarus] Using FPC parser/tokenizer for code formatting
Michael Van Canneyt
michael at freepascal.org
Fri May 28 17:13:41 CEST 2010
On Fri, 28 May 2010, Adem wrote:
>
>>> But, I am hoping to modify the FPC parser/tokenizer so that instead of it
>>> deciding whether to stop, it should do a callback and let the caller
>>> decide whether it should stop.
>>>
>>> Is this likely to be unworthy of the effort?
>> No, but it is hard to do in a meaningful way.
> Could you (or someone else) point me to the source files of FPC
> parser/tokenizer please.
>
> I can guess that it won't be easy; but if it can be done, I think it should
> be.
>
> It is the only way the code formatter can keep up with new features of FPC.
fcl/packages/fcl-passrc.
Note that this is NOT the scanner/parser used by the compiler itself,
this one is used for the documentation generation and other tasks.
Using the parser/scanner from the compiler is an impossible task,
they are impossible to separate.
Michael.
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