From: Charles O Nutter <headius@...>
Date: 2006-07-26T02:02:38+09:00
Subject: Re: rdoc grows to large size.

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On 7/25/06, Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net> wrote:
>
> Comment nodes could be added to Ruby's interpreter, but I think matz
> has given some reason or another why they aren't in the AST.
>

We are planning to add comment nodes to the JRuby AST, which is mostly
identical to the C Ruby AST, but with a parser flag to allow us to turn them
on or off as needed. They would add a good bit of memory overhead, so we'll
generally not want them, but most of the Java-based Ruby editors make use of
the JRuby parser to provide a complete representation of an incoming
document.

matz: perhaps you can tell us why adding comment nodes to the AST couldn't
be done? It might save significant overhead and code duplication for tools
like rdoc.

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Charles Oliver Nutter @ headius.blogspot.com
JRuby Developer @ www.jruby.org
Application Architect @ www.ventera.com

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