Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
I don't see these two in tension. "General" does not need entail "unsuitable for subtle particularities". It is more difficult, but not impossible. Again, a general parser that takes care of the 90% of the drudgework and gives enough hooks to do the remaining 10%, all as efficient as hand-written code.
In general I agree with you, but that is a major project to do that and make it general, efficient, and easy to use - and then, one has to make a D lexer out of it. In the meantime, we have a lexer for D that would be straightforward to adapt to be a D library module. The only decisions that have to be made is what the API to it will be.
