On 8 September 2014 09:51, via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
> I've started to make some minor mods to the DMD parser to tailor it to my
> own taste, but there is no reason to do double work, even if experimental.
> So I wonder which patches are available or in the works by others?
>
> I'm currently working on the following mods (not thoroughly tested yet):
>
> in : templatename‹params›
> out: templatename!(params)
>
> in : templatename«params»
> out: templatename!"params"
>
> in : a := expr
> out: auto a = expr
>
> in : a :== expr
> out: immutable a = expr
>
> And plan to continue with:
>
> in : √x+y
> out: sqrt(x) + y
>
> in : a•b
> out: a.opInner(b) // dot product, maybe some other name?
>
> in : #arr;
> out: arr.length //or perhaps something more generic?
>
> What are you working on and what patches do you have?
>
> What kind of syntactical sugar do you feel is missing in D?
You should read up on a programming language called Neat. Though I
can't say that the crazier unicode syntax made it to the publicly
available product, some of the things that it does do are (I'm
guessing here):
// Essentially a foreach
while auto id <- lines[1 .. $] { }
// Because parenthesis are optional, uses ':' to terminate a loop condition.
for st <- splitAt(",", id): doSomething(st);
// Casting.
int x = 0; float y = float:x;
// Formatted strings do local/global variable lookups.
writeln("FPS: $fps");
// No clue what he was thinking here...
template Blorg(T) <<EOT
struct Blorg {
T t;
}
EOT
Iain.
