Obviously it depends what you are trying to do. Usually compiled programming languages strip them out in the tokenizer; for source to source translations sometimes you want to keep them in (for instance a header with copyright notice when compressing or *all* of them in a case like mine)
Best Scott On Aug 29, 2012, at 2:27 PM, Marcel Laverdet <mar...@laverdet.com> wrote: > Just curious why you need the comments in the AST at all? If you've got the > start position & length of every token in the AST (much easier to do) you > implicitly have the comments as well. The "fiber" engine in Streamline > (https://github.com/Sage/streamlinejs/blob/master/lib/fibers/transform.js) > does this with really good results. > > On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 8:37 AM, Mihai Călin Bazon <mihai.ba...@gmail.com> > wrote: > Well, the code generator doesn't yet have an option to keep comments, > but I can add it easily; the harder part was having them in the AST, > and that's done. > > What exactly are you trying to achieve? My understanding is that you > compile Lisp to JS (cool!), do you want to be able to do the reverse > transform? If so, perhaps a better idea is to generate a source map. > (not sure what you need to do though, just guessing) > > Cheers, > -Mihai > > On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Scott Taylor <sc...@railsnewbie.com> wrote: > > Wonderful! I've been working on a project that is sort of like parenscript > > - but much more of a straight javascript in lisp/scheme clothes with a > > define-syntax macro system. > > > > https://github.com/smtlaissezfaire/loop > > > > I've been hacking on the 1x source of uglify to translate javascript into a > > lispy type system (and back) - but inline comments have been a cause of > > concern. Where is the 2.x source at this point? > > > > Cheers, > > > > Scott > > > > On Aug 28, 2012, at 12:56 PM, Mihai Călin Bazon wrote: > > > > On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 5:33 AM, Scott Taylor <sc...@railsnewbie.com> wrote: > > > > Very cool. What comments in the AST are you going to preserve? > > > > > > The new AST is able to store all comments, and the compressor and code > > generator will be able to keep most of them. However, I suspect that > > in general people will only need to store copyright notices, and those > > usually start with some special marker like "/*!". It'll be easy to > > add a configuration option to keep such comments, as long as they're > > not in code that's going to be dropped (for example dead code, like, > > code that follows a return, throw, break or continue statement). > > > > Cheers, > > -- > > Mihai Bazon, > > http://mihai.bazon.net/blog > > > > -- > > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > > Posting guidelines: > > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "nodejs" group. > > To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > > > > > -- > > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > > Posting guidelines: > > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "nodejs" group. > > To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > > > -- > Mihai Bazon, > http://mihai.bazon.net/blog > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en