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<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>Chapter1.Introduction</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="synopsis.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.65.1"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="Synopsis Tutorial"><link rel="up" href="index.html" title="Synopsis Tutorial"><link rel="previous" href="index.html" title="Synopsis Tutorial"><link rel="next" href="ch01s01.html" title="Inspecting code"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Chapter1.Introduction</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="index.html">Prev</a></td><th width="60%" align="center"></th><td width="20%" align="right"><a accesskey="n" href="ch01s01.html">Next</a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chapter" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a name="intro"></a>Chapter1.Introduction</h2></div></div><div></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch01s01.html">Inspecting code</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch01s02.html">The Abstract Syntax Tree</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch01s03.html">The synopsis processing pipeline</a></span></dt></dl></div><p>
Synopsis is a source code introspection tool. It provides parsers for a variety
of programming languages (C, C++, Python, IDL), and generates internal representations
of varying granularity. The only <span class="emphasis"><em>stable</em></span> representation, which
is currently used among others to generate documentation, is an Abstract Syntax Tree.
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This tutorial is focussed on the AST and the concepts around it. Other representations
are presently being worked on, notably in relation to the C++ parser. To learn more
about those (Parse Tree, Symbol Table, etc.) see the
<a href="../DevGuide/index.html" target="_top">Developer's Guide</a>.
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