From: Simon Vandemoortele <deliriousNOSPAM@...>
Date: 2003-04-27T19:52:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Parsing C++ with Ruby

On Sat, 26 Apr 2003 at 16:48 GMT, Sam Roberts wrote:
> A recent Dr. Dobbs Journal described extensions made to gcc so that it
> dumps the parsed c or c++ syntax as xml. They did this because existing
> non-compiler parsers were all aproximations of the c++ syntax, and
> didnt' work with complex templated c++ code. They used it to build
> wrappers in some other language (swig-like), but you could use  this to
> get an xml representation of the code, and then your dotfile generator
> would only have to parse xml, for which there are many tools.

I had never heard about this, very interesting.

Am I to gather from your answer that you do not recommend trying to
match multi-line C++ expressions with Ruby. 


Simon



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