Walter Bright дµ½: > As we all know, tool support is important for D's success. Making tools > easier > to build will help with that. > > To that end, I think we need a lexer for the standard library - > std.lang.d.lex. > It would be helpful in writing color syntax highlighting filters, pretty > printers, repl, doc generators, static analyzers, and even D compilers. > > It should: > > 1. support a range interface for its input, and a range interface for its > output > 2. optionally not generate lexical errors, but just try to recover and > continue > 3. optionally return comments and ddoc comments as tokens > 4. the tokens should be a value type, not a reference type > 5. generally follow along with the C++ one so that they can be maintained in > tandem > > It can also serve as the basis for creating a javascript implementation that > can > be embedded into web pages for syntax highlighting, and eventually an > std.lang.d.parse. > > Anyone want to own this?
Do you have Scintilla for D ?
