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I vaguely remember someone telling me, a long time ago, that Thomas Reps' PhD thesis (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/book/6267325 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/book
by ngvrnd 5y ago
I vaguely remember someone telling me, a long time ago, that Thomas Reps' PhD thesis
(https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/book/6267325 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/book/6267325)
showed that it wasn't practical to build this kind of editor.
Perhaps that was not at all the point; it was a long time ago.
I wonder, though, can anyone explain 1) if Reps' thesis does bear on the Treefrog work 2) what it was in Reps' thesis that bears on the difficulty of making syntax-tree based code development tools?
- gushogg-blake 5y agoI wonder if it was important that an actual abstract syntax tree was used? I'm realising the title might be a bit misleading - it should probably be "AST-inspired" commands, as the tree-sitter trees are technically concrete as opposed to abstract and the commands aren't tightly coupled to a particular representation.