On Thursday, 10 May 2012 at 21:38:26 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Thursday, May 10, 2012 12:08:27 H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 09:00:40PM +0200, Tove wrote:
> On Sunday, 31 July 2011 at 14:10:12 UTC, Heywood Floyd wrote:
> >- Incremental Garbage collector (for real-time apps)
> >- More example code snippets in the docs (for all libs)
>
> The entire compiler as a library. :D
Or at the very least, the front-end. That would open the door
to many
useful tools like lints, superior IDE integration,
pretty-printers, all
kinds of neat stuff.
That's the plan more or less (at least, we definitely intend to
have the lexer
and the parser included - I don't know what beyond that, and I
don't know how
far the front-end goes before passing stuff off to the
backend). The problem is
implementing it. Walter already gave permission for the
front-end's lexer to
be ported to D (with a range-based API) under the Boost license
to be put into
Phobos. I volunteered to do it and made some progress, but I
haven't time to
work on it in a while. A couple of other people have said that
they'd do it,
but no one has ever gotten to the point that they've attempted
to submit
anything to Phobos. Taking what ddmd did, updating it, and
adjusting it
accordingly might reduce the coding effort (or it might not,
depending on how
out-of-date ddmd is), but you'd have to get ahold of all of the
relevant ddmd
developers so that you could get their permission to change the
license to
Boost.
I'd _like_ to finish the lexer, but I honestly have no idea
when I'll be able
to finish it. Regardless, it's definitely the plan to at
minimum have a lexer
and parser for D in Phobos.
There was also some discussion on adding lexer and parser
generator framework
of some kind to Phobos to make generating lexers and parsers
easy. But no one
has submitted anything like that to Phobos yet either.
- Jonathan M Davis
Please take a look at my draft implementation of lexer and source
decoding from UTF: https://github.com/roman-d-boiko/dct
Any feedback and reviews would be welcome.
