It doesn't need to be a parser, it's just a linter.  You don't really
need to understand anything about the program to give useful warnings
about style.  Our biggest style violation is probably trailing
whitespace, for example.

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 7:33 PM, Benjamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> You wrote a c++ parser in python? cooool!  I can't wait to see the source.
>
> -Benjamin Meyer
>
> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Pam Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 8:30 PM, Benjamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Marshall Greenblatt
>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>> Sorry to be a pest, but has there been any progress on this?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Marshall
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Pam Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Marshall Greenblatt
>>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>>> > Hi Mark/Pam,
>>>>> >
>>>>> > On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Mark Mentovai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> Great question.  We've been talking about open-sourcing something for
>>>>> >> this, but so far, we don't have anything yet.  We do have something we
>>>>> >> use internally, but someone needs to go through it and clean up a few
>>>>> >> things before releasing it so that it runs well in the wild.  When it
>>>>> >> does materialize, it'll show up on the style guide project
>>>>> >> (http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/).
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Do you guys have a timeline in mind of when such a tool might become
>>>>> > available?  If there are potential code licensing/IP issues, perhaps it
>>>>> > could be made available as a web-based service?  For instance, something
>>>>> > like the w3c validator but returning the corrections in either
>>>>> > human-readable format or a format conducive to automation.
>>>>>
>>>>> Everybody's generally in support of open-sourcing the tool, and I
>>>>> don't anticipate any licensing conflicts; it's just a matter of
>>>>> finding the time to go through it.  For what it's worth, setting it up
>>>>> as a web-based service wouldn't be any faster.  More than days, less
>>>>> than months, would be my guess.
>>>>>
>>>>> - Pam
>>>
>>> A web tool would only delay releasing a real tool.  Just curious how
>>> is it written?  Using llvm, rpp, or another parser?
>>
>> It's in Python.
>>
>> - Pam
>>
>>>
>>> -Benjamin Meyer
>>>
>>> >
>>>
>>
>> >
>>
>
> >
>

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