On 3/23/11, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisp...@gmx.com> wrote: >> On 3/23/11, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisp...@gmx.com> wrote: >> > That would require a full-blown D lexer and parser. >> > >> > - Jonathan M Davis >> >> Isn't DDMD written in D? I'm not sure about how finished it is though. > > Yes, but the lexer and parser in ddmd are not only GPL (which would be a > problem for some stuff but not others - for something like Don's utility, it > wouldn't be a problem), and more importantly, it is tied to the compiler > code. > It's not designed to be used by an arbitrary program. For that, you would > need > a lexer and parser which were designed with an API such that an arbitrary D > program could use them. For instance, the lexer could produce a range of > tokens to be processed, and a program which wants to use the lexer can then > process that range. > > - Jonathan M Davis >
I didn't even know it was GPL. It doesn't come with a license file.
