On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 06:51:46PM +0100, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> | I think that the best solution for the long term is the caret approach,
> | printing out the original source line that the user typed. Trying to
> | re-generate the expression from the tree is likely to generate something
> | completely unlike the text of the original program. I do acknowledge that
> | re-generating the expression could be helpful in the case where a macro
> | expands into something the user did not expect, but that's not going to be
> | the common case in C++.
>
> many C++ programs are full of macros (more than would be desired).
> And more and moe popular C++ libraries seem to make far more
> extensive use of macros than in average programs in the past.
But a single statement expression can have thousands statements in
it, do you want to print them all?
Jakub
