Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp

[Richard Stallman]

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  > > With all due respect, it is so important to avoid the full AST
  > > that I'm not going to give up on it just because someone claims
  > > that is necessary.

  > Give up on what, exactly?

Give up on the idea of generating and using data that is less than the
full AST.

  > David wants to write a GCC plugin that outputs the complete AST.

We do not want to promote that sort of plugin.

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