On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:58:27 -0800, Walter Bright wrote: > On 2/27/2013 5:11 PM, Ary Borenszweig wrote: >> If you do it, I think it's an excellent opportunity to rewrite the >> compiler *from scratch*, using features in D, and probably using a >> better design. It's probably easier to design the compiler now that all >> the features are more or less known. I also remember that DMD didn't >> have a visitor of sort for the semantic analysis. >> >> > My experience with such things is it, while tempting, has a large > probability of destroying the project entirely.
I wholeheartedly agree with Walter on this. I'd like to see as much 1:1 translation as possible first, then refactoring can begin.
