"Nick Sabalausky" <a@a.a> wrote in message news:jgjngv$2je9$1...@digitalmars.com... > I'm interested in a D *API* for taking in D sources and spitting out the > user's choice of either the parser results, or an AST with all the > semantics/CTFE/etc already run. I get the impressiona lot of people are > intrested in this. >
This is not that far off. I've got a branch of dmd, with a di file for every h file, that is able to link to itself. There are still some issues with vtables and static variables but hopefully I will sort them out in the near future. What would the D api look like? If D can link to c++ well enough to call into the dmd source, building an api on top of that wouldn't be that bad. > I suspect having it D might be a pain until a lot more issues get > resolved. A bootstrapping compiler, I would imagine, would need a much > more stable base than other types of software would need (though I don't > have any experience with bootstrapping compilers, so I could be wrong). Yeah.
