Re: Help etags parse lisp.j

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 08:46:59 -0400
> 
> >   TYPE0 foo (arg1, arg2, arg3, ..., argN)
> 
> The first potential difference here is that each arg is
> a single identifier.  Of course, in non-K&R declarations, this can also
> be the case, but at least if there's a *, a [..], or two identifiers
> without a comma between them, then we know already it's not K&R.

I thought about this, but concluded that it's too unreliable (as you
point out).

> > Hmm... can we use the fact that in a K&R definition, the last token
> > before the opening brace "{" of the body is always a semicolon?  So if
> > there's no semi-colon there, then it's a function that needs to be
> > tagged?  (Of course, the semicolon could be hidden behind some clever
> > macro, but I think we don't need to cater to such uses.)
> 
> Sounds fine, yes,

I will try to do something useful with this.