Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [OT] Architectural renovation

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Lord <address@hidden> writes:

    Tom> Given the overlap of communities in which JWZ and I
    Tom> travelled, I suspect he just snarked the version I heard.

Probably.

    >> Radically changing the way we implement font-lock and other
    >> syntactic analysis would make a big difference.  Using a
    >> one-pass shift-reduce parser instead of the ad-hoc methods we
    >> now use would make localizing any problems much easier.  And I
    >> suspect that it would "magically" make the font-lock and
    >> context-sensitive indenting, etc, go away.

    Tom> You simply haven't thought that through.

No, I simply haven't said all I have thought.  Obviously, it will take
more than just a real parser and a heuristic grammar.

    >> And there are lots of hacks that would be trivial _if_ there
    >> were a parse tree available.  But there isn't.

    Tom> Nor is there a grammar for C or C++ source pre-CPP.

So?

    Tom> And, oh yeah, gap buffers are lame.

The alternative is?

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