[stringtemplate-interest] visualizer mockup

[Barrie Treloar]

On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 5:52 AM, Terence Parr <parrt at cs.usfca.edu> wrote:
>> Is this meant to be a static inspection of the template? i.e some
>> meta-data about template generation - which either resides inside the
>> template or perhaps in another source (file, socket stream, etc)
>
> I think we should collect all data like a flight data recorder and then ship to the GUI.  Unlike AW, i doubt step by step eval is useful.
>
>> Or is this meant to be something dynamic so that as the template is
>> generated you can see what is going on?
>
> static data but interactive

So why can't the meta data be embedded into the template when debug is
turned on?
It will bloat the template but assuming the template output format
support start/end comments then everything will be in one place.
Failing that store it in a sibling metadata file like "template-name".meta

No need for sockets or fancy trickery.