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15/11/2003 06:45:15
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Visual FoxPro
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Title:
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00849820
Message ID:
00850290
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Hi Stefan,

Check FoxLint 1.13 Open Source Version at http://leafe.com/dls/vfp.

<snip>
>A lint-like facility for Fox would be nice but it could be an external utility written by somebody else, it doesn't have to come from Microsoft. If somebody wants to do something like that as an open source effort then I would be glad to join and I might be able to offer some bits and pieces.
>
>When I started using Fox a couple of years ago I set out to write a linting utility as my 'learn Fox' project. This way I would learn twice as fast, because Fox would be both the means and the subject of the exercise. Since source-code level analysis would have required substantial C/C++ coding I went the object code route instead (I wanted to learn Fox so the code should be in Fox). But extracting semantic information from the compiled code is much more involved than I thought and for obvious reasons you cannot use comments for passing meta info to the linter if the linter sees only object code. So I abandonded the project after I had gotten to the point where it could dump object code as re-compile source code that produces identical byte code output (which is important for automatic verification). Of course, the code is messy and needs to be rewritten from scratch - I was just learning Fox when I wrote the stuff - but it works and so it could be helpful for creating a verification
>tool for a source code analyzer.
--sb--
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