On Wednesday, September 11, 2013 19:17:26 Manfred Nowak wrote: > Walter Bright wrote: > > Parsing D requires arbitrary lookahead. > > Why---and since which version?
IIRC, it's at least partially cause by the .. token. You have to look ahead to figure out whether it's .. or a floating point literal. There may be other cases as well, but that particular one was actually complained about by Robert Schadek in his talk at dconf 2013. - Jonathan M Davis