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From: nicolas.palix@imag.fr (Nicolas Palix)
To: cocci@systeme.lip6.fr
Subject: [Cocci] semantic patches for C preprocessing constructs?
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:28:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAxaTiNPSj=xexkp90cu-8asVbMxnt04O39hmXrQN4zoZHutgQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <508D5711.9060402@users.sourceforge.net>

Hi,

On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 5:02 PM, SF Markus Elfring
<elfring@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>> Huh?  Coccinelle is written in Ocaml.  Matching C preprocessing code
>> requires pervasive changes to its implementation.  Thus it requires
>> knowing the language in which the code is implemented.
>
> I suggest to raise the abstraction level a bit. I see chances to get some
> contributions then from developers who are still more familiar with other
> programming languages. How do you think about model-driven development?
> Can this software design approach improve idea exchange?
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-driven_engineering

Coccinelle should not become a rosseta stone. There is a language OCaml.
You can script in either Python or OCaml.
If you need to improve Coccinelle, learn OCaml.
If you want to script in *YourFavoriteLanguage*, learn OCaml and add
an extension of it.

Model-driven development will not help you to deal with the legacy
which is in OCaml.

One of the ways to make Coccinelle "language-independant" would be to
add an network API.
Feel free to add it and use it in *YourFavoriteLanguage*. But this
extension must be in OCaml too.

Regards,

>
> Regards,
> Markus
>
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-- 
Nicolas Palix

  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-29  8:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-24 22:03 [Cocci] spatches for cpp? ron minnich
2012-10-25 11:19 ` Julia Lawall
2012-10-26 10:55   ` [Cocci] semantic patches for C preprocessing constructs? SF Markus Elfring
2012-10-26 13:47     ` Julia Lawall
2012-10-28  9:14       ` SF Markus Elfring
2012-10-28 12:14         ` Julia Lawall
2012-10-28 16:02           ` SF Markus Elfring
2012-10-29  8:28             ` Nicolas Palix [this message]
2012-10-29 11:50               ` [Cocci] Application of model-driven engineering? SF Markus Elfring

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