On Saturday, 20 July 2013 at 04:44:38 UTC, Chad Joan wrote:
On Saturday, 20 July 2013 at 04:38:20 UTC, cal wrote:
On Thursday, 18 July 2013 at 03:26:10 UTC, Chad Joan wrote:
[...]
Is the input to xdc a semantically-analyzed D AST, or does
semantic analysis occur during pattern-matching/lowering?
The latter.
xdc would accept D code as text input (.d files) and parse it
to produce its own AST. Semantic analysis is then done by
matching patterns in the AST and doing substitutions until all
that's left are the AST nodes the backend wants. The backend
then matches patterns and emits the desired output (instead of
substituting AST nodes).
I'm not sure how you'll handle all compile time features.
