Update of /project/climacs/cvsroot/papers/ilc2005/syntax In directory common-lisp.net:/tmp/cvs-serv14594

Modified Files: climacssyntax.tex Log Message: Add my "Future Work" paragraph

Date: Mon May 23 15:39:00 2005 Author: bmastenbrook

Index: papers/ilc2005/syntax/climacssyntax.tex diff -u papers/ilc2005/syntax/climacssyntax.tex:1.21 papers/ilc2005/syntax/climacssyntax.tex:1.22 --- papers/ilc2005/syntax/climacssyntax.tex:1.21 Mon May 23 15:27:29 2005 +++ papers/ilc2005/syntax/climacssyntax.tex Mon May 23 15:39:00 2005 @@ -523,7 +523,15 @@ Lisp implementation. Thus, the Common Lisp syntax module is likely to exercise the Climacs protocols to a very high degree. This will allow us to improve those protocols as well as their corresponding -implementations. +implementations. + +The TTCN-3 grammar is currently defined on the core textual +language. For a large subset of this language, there is a direct +correspondance between TTCN-3 textual notation and TTCN-3 Graphical +Representation (GR) diagrams. Implementing a live-updating TTCN-3 GR +display of a parsed buffer will, in addition to being a useful +application, serve as a demonstration of the utility of maintaining a +full parse tree of a buffer.

Another important future direction is the planned implementation of the buffer protocol. Representing a line being edited as a flexichain