Re: Migrating dmd to D?

[Zach the Mystic]

On Sunday, 3 March 2013 at 07:27:51 UTC, Daniel Murphy wrote:
Now you're as up-to-date as I am on what I'm thinking.

I did something like that before (token-level pattern matching) 
and found
the number of special cases to be much much too high.  You need 
so much
context information you're better off just building an ast and 
operating on
that.

What were the biggest and most common reasons you needed context 
information?