Re: [Vala] lexical analysis using libvala

[Maga Abdurakhmanov <maqdev gmail com>]

> If it doesn't distort the job of libvala too much, maybe it could be
> extended to cover the (modest) additional requirements of a syntax
> highlighter, but that means someone taking the time to do patches and
> get them approved and integrated.

At this point i able to get all comments using some hacks with libvala
Scanner class. While doing it i've found some bugs, one of them i posted to
bugzilla.


> I think that a flag that controls whether or not all comments are
> stored in the AST would not create any significant overhead when
> turned off for compiling.
>
> Jim

I agree with you. It doesn't look very hard to add some flag, new lexer
types for comments and create a patch for it. I can try to do that work.


-- 
Sincerely,
Magomed