so that was 4 months ago - how do things currently stand on that initiative?
-Mike On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 6:37 PM, Bruno Medeiros <brunodomedeiros+s...@com.gmail> wrote: > On 19/11/2010 22:25, Michael Stover wrote: > >> As for D lexers and tokenizers, what would be nice is to >> A) build an antlr grammar for D >> B) build D targets for antlr so that antlr can generate lexers and >> parsers in the D language. >> >> For B) I found http://www.mbutscher.de/antlrd/index.html >> >> For A) A good list of antlr grammars is at >> http://www.antlr.org/grammar/list, but there isn't a D grammar. >> >> These things wouldn't be an enormous amount of work to create and >> maintain, and, if done, anyone could parse D code in many languages, >> including Java and C which would make providing IDE features for D >> development easier in those languages (eclipse for instance), and you >> could build lexers and parsers in D using antlr grammars. >> >> -Mike >> > > Yes, that would be much better. It would be directly and immediately useful > for the DDT project: > > "But better yet would be to start coding our own custom parser (using a > parser generator like ANTLR for example), that could really be tailored for > IDE needs. In the medium/long term, that's probably what needs to be done. " > in > http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/ide/Future_of_Descent_and_D_Eclipse_IDE_635.html > > -- > Bruno Medeiros - Software Engineer >