[nem-en] Manager class

[Mark Haniford]

On 5/30/06, Kamil Skalski <kamil.skalski at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > What do you exactly mean with 'code duplication'? I know there's some
> > > stuff that have been moved to the Manager class, and I want to get rid
> > > of it (maybe having the compiler init directly in Manager). However,
> > > most of the things are not as in normal Manager, that's wh they remain
> > > in Engine. If you have any other suggestions, feel free to post it
> > > here, I'll try to do my best to improve the Completion Engine.
> > > However, what do you exactly need? Lexer or parser is not available
> > > through Completion Engine, but just type tree and method completion.
> > Seems that I was not crystal clear (happens a lot :)
> > I meant that you were able to make your own manager class working and it
> > seems that the initialization almost duplicates the code in the Manager
> > class. As Nazgul said he will refactor the code further to eliminate the
> > code duplication. However meantime I will copy your code for my parser
> > stuff because I simply cannot decipher exactly what is needed to make
> > that ManagerClass working... So no suggestions here, I have just lost in
> > the code :(
>
> I just change completion engine to use ManagerClass's InitCompiler and
> LoadExternalLibraries instead of performing operations copy pasted
> from there.
>
> I think the main objective is to make ManagerClass.Run method more
> flexible (it should call a bunch of virtual methods for every step or
> run a pipeline on small "compiler step" structures), so completion
> engine could just specify what is desired (recreating the hierarchy
> tree, parsing one file, or one method) and call Run from base class.
>
> Also I wonder if Options.PersistentLibraries can be used by completion
> engine - it avoids loading of libraries and creating hierarchy tree
> for them in several compiler runs.

That sounds great.  I'm not a compiler/parser guy, but having more
fine-grained parsing seems like a good thing (at the method or class
level).

I can't wait for the VSIP.  I think it'll really take Nemerle to the
next level as far as exposure is concerned.

Has anybody tried the new Monodevelop Nemerle plugin?