"Nick Sabalausky" <a...@a.a> wrote in message news:i4nrlb$1dp...@digitalmars.com... > "Walter Bright" <newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote in message > news:i4nqis$19f...@digitalmars.com... >> BTW, I realized around 10 years ago that what you can do is lex D source >> and use the token stream as your "intermediate code". It should work >> great, be compact, and fast. > > Would that be useful in any significant way? Wouldn't re-lexing be very > quick too? And in my limited experience, lexing seems to be a little easer > than parsing, too. >
If you ever saved it to disk or across a network, you'd have to be real careful about choosing a storage format...you could easily end up defeating the point :)
