Yes. a general-purpose parsing tool would be great. I don't think, that porting DMD's front-end is a good idea, because it's far from being generic or modular. We're gonna have to start from scratch.
Optionally, it would be really great to make it CTFE-able, so it could be used to provide a complete compile-time reflection. On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 10:40 PM, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisp...@gmx.com> wrote: > On Sunday, October 23, 2011 22:27:17 Gor Gyolchanyan wrote: >> cool! >> I really _REALY_ want to get a working D front-end into Phobos. >> preferably during my lifetime. >> Obviously there's some work already done in this area. >> I'd like us to chip in and discuss this in-depth and come up with a >> plan to do this. >> AFAIK everyone was in favor of a front-end as a library solution. > > The two proposed approaches at the moment are to port dmd's frontend to D for > Phobos and to write a template-based generative, generic solution. The first > would obviously be D-specific. The second would be for _any_ language. In > either case, any solution needs to be broken up into a lexer, parser, etc. in > manner which allows you to use only the pieces that you need for a particular > application. > > And so unless you're going with the "port dmd frontend to D" approach, any > solution really needs to be generic and not D-specific. Naturally, we'll > provied whatever's needed to generate the D lexer, parser, etc. as part of > Phobos, but the lexer, paresr, etc. need to be generic and generative rather > than D-specfiic. > > http://www.mail-archive.com/digitalmars-d@puremagic.com/msg40358.html > > - Jonathan M Davis >
