On Sunday, 12 June 2016 at 06:45:58 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
I should know this, but…
Is there an official D grammar (EBNF or otherwise) or is the
language
defined by the DMD parser?
I am looking to continue Kingsley's DLanguage IntelliJ IDEA
plugin and for that it is necessary to have a grammar
specification. Kingsley has been working on one, but there may
be differences between it and 2.071. Given the compilers and
all the supporting tools either there is one language
specification they all work with or there is a lot of
fragmented viewpoints as to what D actually is. I am hoping the
latter is not the case.
Officially, the grammar is defined throughout the specification
pages, e.g. on http://dlang.org/spec/grammar.html.
Practically, not sure how complete / correct it is, though I know
it has been kept up to date by people working on compilers and
parsers.
Pragmatically, there's this:
https://github.com/Hackerpilot/DGrammar
