On 20 May 2013 16:57, Marcus Denker <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On May 20, 2013, at 4:44 PM, Paul Davidowitz <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> 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

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