| [cdt-dev] Language-independent index ? |
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People,
what do you think
about language-independent index, in general ?
You see that
current CDT version treats C and C++ as different
languages, so for C/C++ mixed project names defined in C files are not visible in C++, vice versa. In principle, PDOM
can be language-neutral, but currently it
stores C and C++ specific objects - mostly for handy visual representation in different treeviews. From navigation's point of view, definition, declaration and reference is enougth. So, may be we
could (in future) store some language-independent
names to index ? The only component-specific value can be some integer index related only to graphic representation (icon), not to real object
meaning.
Each language (C, C++, C#, Fortran) would provide their own mapping from their object kinds to corresponding icons. Other information
(file, position etc) can be the same for
every language. In this case, we
can have only one (optimized ?) indexing
engine for all languages. Specific language implementations will be responsible for parsing only, in fact. ----------------------------------- |