On May 20, 2013, at 6:15 PM, Frank Shearar <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.) what do you mean by performance enhancer? > > frank >
