"Nick Sabalausky" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > "Walter Bright" <[email protected]> wrote in message > news:[email protected]... >> 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 :)
