dolive дµ½: > 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 ? >
Should be port Scintilla to D.