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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
To: John Yates <john@yates-sheets.org>,
	Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Guidelines for the "symbol" syntax class
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2016 03:18:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5689C875.3010402@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJnXXohrH33RheXsgqn8UsXqv=jkw+USck2AiF3S_PwtrDYk0g@mail.gmail.com>

On 01/04/2016 03:13 AM, John Yates wrote:

> Trying to jigger emacs' symbol notion to cover qualified names as provided
> in contemporary languages is likely to be a source of  continuing complaints
> and frustration.

I'm not trying to cover qualified names here. In many languages, it's 
impossible to find out the qualified name of the type or method at point 
without parsing the whole application with its dependencies (and 
sometimes you have to run it anyway).

As far as xref is concerned, qualified symbol names are currently an 
implementation detail: some backends might operate them under the 
covers, but the API stays ignorant.



  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-04  1:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-03  5:09 Guidelines for the "symbol" syntax class Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-03 22:56 ` John Wiegley
2016-01-04  0:46   ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-04  0:51     ` Stefan Monnier
2016-01-04  0:58       ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-04  1:13       ` John Yates
2016-01-04  1:18         ` Dmitry Gutov [this message]
     [not found]           ` <CAJnXXog5fO_h5UNnVR67EJtT+u7+G-BVMFV3FnJgK=weGj0m_w@mail.gmail.com>
2016-01-04  2:01             ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-04  0:55     ` John Wiegley
2016-01-04  1:14       ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-04  2:56         ` Stefan Monnier
2016-01-04  3:47           ` Dmitry Gutov
     [not found]     ` <CAJnXXogonsWpqadNpX0BijzoiztorYP1d=b31seBfvGVBwwT_Q@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]       ` <5689CC5C.4000408@yandex.ru>
     [not found]         ` <CAJnXXojy1b6LUdXcC+cDVPYT-OJMXCE8m8yqObE9oUYwU_PGbg@mail.gmail.com>
2016-01-04  2:34           ` Dmitry Gutov

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