[Lazarus] Using FPC parser/tokenizer for code formatting

[Florian Klaempfl]

Adem schrieb:
> On 2010-05-31 05:36, Doug Chamberlin wrote:
> 
> Doug,
> 
>> I have great interest in a parser-based code formatting tool. However,
> I have doubt that using the compiler's parser is the best solution.
> 
> It may not be the best solution basically bexause it was written solely
> for the compiler's needs. IOW, a very customized, special purpose one.
> 
> Yet, as far as parser goes, it is the best solution. Because it is the
> originial source of information. Any new additions as well as
> corrections go in there --

This is not necessarily true. Someone might hack in support for a new
procedure specifier. However, it is not guranteed that this one would be
exposed in any way to an external interface.

> if something then begin
>   something;
> end else begin
>   somethingelse;
> end;
> 
> it can also reorganize some comments in such constructs.

The compiler simply discards comments and it has no infrastructure to
link comments in any way to code.