[Lazarus] Using FPC parser/tokenizer for code formatting

[Marco van de Voort]

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 10:06:37PM +0300, Adem wrote:
> On 2010-05-28 21:50, Florian Klaempfl wrote:
> >
> > It might be possible but the fpc scanner/parser are rather interwinded
> > with other parts of the compiler, just to name an example: pmodules.pas
> > parses units and programs but controls also code generation and handles
> > symtables etc. for them.
> 
> I can only --barely at that-- guess the amount of work and effort you 
> have put into FPC and I appreciate it all immensely.
> [No, this isn't grovelling. It is sincere. But, I just wanted to say it, 
> before moving on to the next paragraph.]
> 
> Would I have your blessing if I proposed a bounty to unentwine them so 
> that each one of those major modules becomes objects in tehir own right 
> --commnicating with one another through public/published events and 
> properties.

Personally I think the bounty is better spent on improving fcl-passrc and
giving it some regular work and maintainance.

That doesn't mean the various parsers could be better synchronized, and I
think something can be done there.  But I think it would yield more to
integrating fcl-passrc into the testsuite, and thus document the boundery
conditions of implemented constructs.