I did a lot of code generation work in those years, working on the two dominant Mac-based generators (AppMaker and Prototyper) but was never ambitious enough to try round-tripping because of the horrors of parsing C++.
> Round-trip engineering (RTE) is a functionality of software development tools that synchronizes two or more related software artifacts, such as, source code, models, configuration files, and even documentation.[1] The need for round-trip engineering arises when the same information is present in multiple artifacts and therefore an inconsistency may occur if not all artifacts are consistently updated to reflect a given change. For example, some piece of information was added to/changed in only one artifact and, as a result, it became missing in/inconsistent with the other artifacts.
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/rhapsody/8.2?topic=developing-ro...
I did a lot of code generation work in those years, working on the two dominant Mac-based generators (AppMaker and Prototyper) but was never ambitious enough to try round-tripping because of the horrors of parsing C++.