[fpc-devel] OO rewrite - globals

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Florian Klaempfl schrieb:

>>> I simply don't like the idea of having one big parser class blob spread
>>> over multiple include files.
>> I don't like it as well :-(
> 
> But what is the reason against a
> TModuleParser
> TDeclarationParser
> TSubroutineParser
> TStatementParser
> TExprParser
> ?

How are these objects created, and how shall they communicate? (where 
should their references be stored? Even more global variables, for 
access to each current_xyzparser and his (local) objects?

Every sub-parser will have to reference (create and use) all the other 
parser types, so that a bunch of temporary parser objects will have to 
be created and destroyed frequently. Or according references to reusable 
objects must either go into the parser class (preventing unit references 
back to the parser unit), or they have to be passed along as subroutine 
arguments - one argument for each sub-parser.

It would be acceptable to have data container objects for the parsed 
declarations, subroutines etc., when these objects are put into their 
own hierarchy (like already done for the nodes), so that the code 
generation dependencies can be removed entirely from the parser.

DoDi