On Sat, Feb 04, 2012 at 01:56:50PM -0800, Jonathan M Davis wrote: [...] > The intention is to have a lexer and parser for D in Phobos at some > point, but I don't know how much we gain by having the whole compiler > in D. It's not a bad idea in the least, and it would be a great > project for someone to tackle, but of all of the things that a > contributor could be doing, I'm not sure that that's really all that > high on the list as far as value goes. [...]
I'm actually thinking about writing a D pretty printer as a little exercise in D programming. I haven't decided whether or not to simply adapt the existing dmd frontend. One of Walter's stated advantages of D is that it's easily lexed and parsed, even if semantics are disregarded. I'm considering to prove that statement by building a lexer/parser from ground up, though of course lacking most of the complexity of the real compiler since I only need to do just enough to be able to pretty-print D code. If it's done correctly, it might even be useful in automated conversions between different preferred indentation styles, etc.. T -- This is a tpyo.
