> On Aug 24, 2017, at 10:56 PM, John McCall via swift-dev <swift-dev@swift.org>
> wrote:
>
> Or if you really want to avoid the FFI, you could take our current ASTDumper
> output, which is currently pseudo-machine-readable, and make it actually
> machine-readable. The elegant approach there would be to take the entire
> dumper and remove its pervasive dependence on an output stream; instead, it
> would be rewritten to make calls on a SAX-like streaming interface, and there
> would just be a standard implementation that formatted things as XML / JSON /
> our weird s-expression format.
… I would love it if ASTDumper supported a Clang-like tree view in addition to
(or instead of, if we also get JSON output?) the faux s-expression output. I
know I’m supposed to like Lisp, but I personally find our dump output rather
hard to read.
Slava
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