On 20 May 2013 16:57, Marcus Denker <[email protected]> wrote: > > On May 20, 2013, at 4:44 PM, Paul Davidowitz <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I just started following this Dev mailing list, and I saw that 'AST >> Everywhere' and 'Reflectivity' were mentioned as very promising (I >> already know about Slots). >> Can someone in a nutshell please describe these developments? Thanks, > > > Right now, the compiler uses it's own AST, Syntax highlighting uses a very > minimal > token stream (and it's own parser), the refactoring engine has one, too. > And then there is Bytecode which is used by the Debugger, for example. > > As a first step we plan to use the Refactoring AST for everything > (Compiler, Refactoring, Syntax highlighting )
I keep forgetting to ask - does the Refactoring AST have an equivalent of Squeak's FutureNode? (It's not semantically necessary to have one to support futures; it's a performance enhancer.) frank
