Re: UML Code Generator for Pascal

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

At 08.03.2009 17:37, Johann Glaser wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > > There are a few downsides of using this approach:
> > >  - The order of the exported classes and the fields and methods within a
> > >    class is random, so you have to sort everything by hand.
> > Reminnds me on http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=519162
>
> I solved these order problems by replacing the attributes dictionary by
> a map.
This issues was already solved in SVN, which makes your patch conflict with 
the current trunk version.

> > That todo list is just too long to convince me to commit your patch right 
> > away. At least some things should be very low hanging fruits.
>
> The Pascal exporter is already way more elaborate than all other
> exporters. So there is no reason to refuse the Pascal exporter, just
> because the other exporters have no written TODO list.
Bold statement. Note that the above issue was already fixed in SVN and it 
was the main reason making me hesitate.

But a todo-list for how the newly written code should have been written 
differently still does not make too much sense to me.

> All the remaining TODOs strongly depend on a fundamental refactoring of
> the internal representation of the data. Currently a class ("Klass") and
> lots of lists of lists of lists are used, so you always have to remember
> list indexes to access e.g. an attribute's name, comment,
Isn't there the concept of named constants in Pascal? In Python and 
virtually any other language I know there is ;-)

> ... This is
> bad programming style and tedious to work with. Since my Python
> knowledge is still virtually zero, I'm not going to play with this any
> further.
Cool, insulting and ignorance almost in the same sentence.

> Please find attached a patch for my current version of the Pascal code
> generator.
Commited:

2009-03-08  Hans Breuer  <hans breuer org>

        * plug-ins/python/codegen.py : PascalRenderer by Johann Glaser and
        some adjustments to (Cxx/Py/Java)Renderer to almost get on par

Thanks,
        Hans
        
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