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

[Jiří Techet]

> Understandable. However, I wanted to make ctags pass extracted information to client tools including Geany as is.
I thought ctags should not do too clever. Reducing information can be done in a client tool. In ctags level, just passing too much information is better than reducing information. Even if a target language doing wrong, ctags doesn't try to fix it. This basic rule makes the development ctags a bit easier.

> What ctags can do is providing more API for:
> (1) getting separators, and
> (2) adjusting separators as a client tool wants when making tags.

OK, understood, I think no API is needed, I just converted `\` to `::` for PHP in Geany, no real problem there.

> It seems that you misunderstand the meaning of roles.

It's true I misunderstood roles, the problem is still present though - I just created a new issue against ctags here https://github.com/universal-ctags/ctags/issues/3211 so we don't pollute this thread.

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