On 24/11/2010 16:19, Ellery Newcomer wrote:
On 11/24/2010 09:13 AM, Bruno Medeiros wrote:
I don't know about Ellery, as you can see in that thread he/she(?)
mentioned interest in working on that, but I don't know anything more.
Normally I go by 'it'.
I didn't meant to offend or anything, I was just unsure of that. To me
Ellery seems like a female name (but that can be a bias due to English
not being my first language, or some other cultural thing). On the other
hand, I would be surprised if a person of the female variety would be
that interested in D, to the point of contributing in such way.
Been pretty busy this semester, so I haven't been doing much.
But the bottom line is, yes I have working antlr grammars for D1 and D2
if you don't mind
1) they're slow
2) they're tied to a hacked-out version of the netbeans fork of ANTLR2
3) they're tied to some custom java code
4) I haven't been keeping the tree grammars so up to date
I've not released them for those reasons. Semester will be over in about
3 weeks, though, and I'll have time then.
Hum, doesn't sound like it might be suitable for DDT, but I wasn't
counting on that either.
As for me, I didn't work on that, nor did I plan to.
Nor am I planning to anytime soon, DDT can handle things with the
current parser for now (bugs can be fixed on the current code, perhaps
some limitations can be resolved by merging some more code from DMD), so
I'll likely work on other more important features before I go there. For
example, I'll likely work on debugger integration, and code completion
improvements before I would go on writing a new parser from scratch.
Plus, it gives more time to hopefully someone else work on it. :P
Unlike Walter, I can't write a D parser in a weekend... :) Not even on a
week, especially since I never done anything of this kind before.
It took me like 3 months to read his parser to figure out what was going
on.
Not 3 man-months for sure!, right? (Man-month in the sense of someone
working 40 hours per week during a month.)
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Bruno Medeiros - Software Engineer
