Ellery Newcomer wrote:
Well, that's a better solution than reimplementing semantic analysis in
the ide. If you make it, I will stop trying to do the latter.
That's what I wanted to hear.
In the xml, will we see ct stuff and other transformations that DMD
performs on the source expanded?
ct stuff? What is that? Won't see dmd operations on the source expanded.
What you'll see is basically what ddoc generates, but in a machine
readable format. I.e. you'll see function names, with their types, line
number, comment, etc. Essentially what intellisense would pop up.
[very very minor] concerns:
standardized? DMD derivatives will have it, what about hypothetical
other D implementations?
It would be part of the dmd front end, so all D compilers based on it
would have it.
If your ide can't see or doesn't have compiler, it won't be able to do
much (erm duh)
Yeah, but without a compiler why edit D source? <g>
All in all, I think it would be the bomb. I'd even volunteer to help
implementing it if I thought my code contributions would do less harm
than good.
I don't think it would be hard to implement.
But if you want to contribute, how about a JSON parser for phobos?
You'll need one anyway for your IDE.
BTW, JSON parsing comes for free with javascript. Why not incorporate
dmdscript into your IDE as its extension language?
