[Github-comments] [geany/geany] Use cxx parser from uctags (PR #3032)

[Jiří Techet]

@masatake After thinking about it for a while, is it actually a good idea to distinguish between imports and package definitions using a role in go (and possibly some other languages)? The way I understand semantics of roles is that they further distinguish the nature of a single kind but if this extra information is ignored, nothing bad happens. For instance in Python I think the following is alright because it just distinguishes different types of imports
```
/* Roles related to `import'
 * ==========================
 * import X              X = (kind:module, role:imported)
 *
 * import X as Y         X = (kind:module, role:indirectlyImported),
 *                       Y = (kind:namespace, nameref:module:X)
 *                       ------------------------------------------------
 *                       Don't confuse the kind of Y with namespace role of module kind.
 *
 * from X import *       X = (kind:module,  role:namespace)
 *
 * from X import Y       X = (kind:module,  role:namespace),
 *                       Y = (kind:unknown, role:imported, scope:module:X)
 *
 * from X import Y as Z  X = (kind:module,  role:namespace),
 *                       Y = (kind:unknown, role:indirectlyImported, scope:module:X)
 *                       Z = (kind:unknown, nameref:unknown:Y) */
 ```
But package definitions and imports of other packages are two fundamentally different things and IMO there should rather be two different kinds in go for these.

Note: Take the above as a note of someone who is lazy to do the extra work in Geany and possibly just tries to figure out how to delegate some work to others :-). What I wrote above make sense in my (very biased) brain but whatever is implemented should primarily be a good thing for ctags.

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