On Friday, 3 August 2012 at 03:14:14 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 8/2/2012 8:00 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 8/2/12 10:40 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
To reiterate another point, since we are in the compiler
business,
people will expect std.d.lexer to be of top quality, not some
bag on the
side. It needs to be usable as a base for writing a
professional quality
compiler. It's the reason why I'm pushing much harder on this
than I do
for other modules.
The lexer must be configurable enough to tokenize other
languages than D. I
confess I'm very unhappy that there seem to be no less than
three people
determined to write lexers for D. We're wasting precious
talent and resources
doubly. Once, several people are working in parallel on the
same product.
Second, none of them is actually solving the problem that
should be solved.
I agree and I hope the three can combine their efforts with the
best ideas of each.
If the other guys think they've got it, then I can withdraw my
efforts. I was just thinking I had a lexer just sitting around,
may as well use it, but if the other guys have it, then I'm fine
with withdrawing.
