On 2013-01-24 14:12, Bruno Medeiros wrote:
That's a lot of continuing nice work coming out from there, impressive!
BTW, something I've been meaning to ask. I see that in Mono-D you've
developed a hand-written D parser. How long did it take you to write
that? Did you test it extensively or not so much?
I'm embarking on that same task in Java, for DDT, and wondering how long
it will take to build a quality parser. So far, it doesn't seem writing
the actual parser will take that long, but writing extensive tests for
it is seeming exceedingly complicated (or just lengthy and
time-consuming). I'm usually a big proponent of TDD, but when writing a
lot of tests starts to take a lot of time compared to the code being
tested (in this case, maybe 1.5 times the effort/time of the code being
tested), I'm not so certain it's the right call to spend so much time
writing tests...
How about reusing the one in VisualD, it's written in D? Sure it's a bit
more work since it's not written in a Java compatible language but it
might be worth it.
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/Jacob Carlborg
