BCS wrote:
(BTW I'm taking (but haven't yet finished) a compilers class so I might be missing something)
That's one of my gripes about compiler classes, they expend enormous effort on the simplest part of a compiler - the lexer/parser.
In working on the D compiler, I easily spend less than 1% of the effort on the lexer/parser.
Plug: you should sign up for my compiler construction seminar! We don't waste much time on the simple stuff, and do the hard bits instead. /Plug
