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Re: A question about tree-pretty-printing
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, Paul Brook wrote:
| On Monday 28 June 2004 05:33, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
| > Jason,
| >
| > Do front-ends expect a pretty-printing close to the source language
| > (e.g. Ada, C, C++, Fortran, Java, ...) or do they expect someting
| > close to C?
| >
| > Currently, C and C++ front-ends have a pretty-printer; I don't know
| > of any other front-end that has similar functionality.
|
| The Fortran frontend doesn't use the tree pretty-printer. We generate all
| error messages before generating GENERIC trees. For debugging purposes I
| prefer the output look like C.
I think the consensus is that tree-pretty-printing looks C-like.
As for diagnostics, I think I'll stick to C, C++, Java -- but encourage
other front-ends maintainers to share infrastructure with the main
diagnostic and pretty-printing machinery.
-- Gaby