On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 10:13:54AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote: > The thing is that these MAD props are hung on whatever node is handy > at the time, [...]. That's the main reason for the first pass of > translator, to reattach the madprops at a more appropriate place in > the tree. > [...] > But with comments you'd like them > to travel with the code they're commenting, in cases where refactoring > moves code around.
So, what I'm hearing you say is that you have just written the very very basic skeleton--maybe even just the backbone--of a Perl refactoring browser. Is that correct? Once you're done, could the community take this tool that you're producing and flesh it out into something that would allow for straightforward refactoring and reformatting of Perl code? --Dks