A nice way to navigate AST in the inspector

[NicolasAnquetil]

Hello, this is something we use to navigate ASTs in Moose.
Don't know if you already saw this or if you already have something similar.

Anyway, I am showing here a small example for CPPFunctionDefinitionNode:

We might use your SmaCC Cpp parser in the future and if we do, I propose to generalize this to all nodes.
It requires:

• defining inspectionSmaccAST for some "top nodes" (classes, methods, functions)
• having children in all nodes
• and having inspectionSmaccASTSourceCode in Smacc top node, but this is already done here for CPPProgramNode

cheers

[j-brant]

children is already defined on SmaCCParseNode so you shouldn't need to redefine it. Also, if you look at the SmaCC_Debugging_Support package, you can see some old inspector methods that used the gtInspectorPresentationOrder: pragma in SmaCCParseNode. I think these should be updated to work with newer Pharo instead of creating versions for particular parse nodes.

[NicolasAnquetil]

yes, you are right
I will try to make some time to structure that better