From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mo DeJong To: sourcenav@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: Java hiccups Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 18:20:00 -0000 Message-id: References: X-SW-Source: 2001-q1/msg00022.html On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Ben Elliston wrote: > mdejong wrote: > > We are talking about the "right" way to fix it but it is going to > require some work. The GCJ based parser would work for Java code that > would compile, but fuzzy Java parsing is a much harder problem. > > Having had a couple of years to ponder this issue, I'm coming to the > conlusion that perhaps the correct parsing of correct programs should come > before the best-effort parsing of incorrect programs. Perhaps fuzzy parsing > should take a back seat? > > Ben The option we were talking about was using a "normal" parser first and then if that failed we would fall back to a fuzzy parser for that one file. It would also be really neat if you could "go fuzzy" for a single function or class (that might be a lot harder than it sounds). The devil is in the details of course. Mo DeJong Red Hat Inc