Re: D Frontend and shared code base (moving away from calling it DMD front-end).

2012-12-18 Thread Walter Bright
On 12/18/2012 5:34 AM, Iain Buclaw wrote: I'll let you all brood over that though, and would welcome any feedback to get some sort of plan rolling (even if it's just a DIP). I'm open to pull requests which abstract away some of the differences.

Re: D Frontend and shared code base (moving away from calling it DMD front-end).

2012-12-18 Thread Walter Bright
On 12/18/2012 7:06 AM, Walter Bright wrote: On 12/18/2012 5:34 AM, Iain Buclaw wrote: I'll let you all brood over that though, and would welcome any feedback to get some sort of plan rolling (even if it's just a DIP). I'm open to pull requests which abstract away some of the differences. Th

Re: D Frontend and shared code base (moving away from calling it DMD front-end).

2012-12-18 Thread Iain Buclaw
On 18 December 2012 14:07, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: > On 12/18/12, Iain Buclaw wrote: > > I'd like to get the core developers of D Front-end to > > work with the people maintaining other such compilers (GDC, LDC, > > and any others that might come into existance) so that there can > > genuinely be

Re: D Frontend and shared code base (moving away from calling it DMD front-end).

2012-12-18 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
On 12/18/12, Iain Buclaw wrote: > I'd like to get the core developers of D Front-end to > work with the people maintaining other such compilers (GDC, LDC, > and any others that might come into existance) so that there can > genuinely be a shared, portable source base for the D Front-end > code..

D Frontend and shared code base (moving away from calling it DMD front-end).

2012-12-18 Thread Iain Buclaw
On Tuesday, 18 December 2012 at 12:36:31 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: On 12/18/12, foobar wrote: Besides, the other compilers merge in the same front-end code so they'll gain the same feature anyway. There's no gain in separating it out to rdmd. Adding more front-end features adds more work