"Zach the Mystic" <reachbutminusthisz...@googlymail.com> wrote in message news:kidboshnjpowpyqrt...@forum.dlang.org... > 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?
Turning implicit into explicit conversions. A big one is 0 -> Loc(0). dinteger_t -> size_t. void* -> char*. string literal to char*. string literal to unsigned char*. unsigned -> unsigned char. int -> bool.
