On 12/9/19 9:55 AM, songbird wrote:
jf...@ms4.hinet.net wrote:
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Even string is hard to be handled by the AI:-)
Quoted from https://portingguide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/strings.html
" ... This means that you need to go through the entire codebase, and decide which
value is what type. Unfortunately, this process generally cannot be automated."
i don't agree. if the language is already parsed then
you have the strings. the contents of the strings will
have to be finite if they are fixed strings. so to convert
a fixed string you can choose a type for the value and run
a test to see if it works. if it does then you've picked
the correct type, if it doesn't you pick the next type.
there are only a finite number of types.
And how exactly do you propose to determine whether the constant I've enclosed
in quotation marks in Python2 represents "text" or "binary data"? Not all text
is words; think of SQL queries. And some words are binary data, think SCPI
commands being sent to a serial port.
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