Jonathan M Davis дµ½: > On Saturday 26 February 2011 02:06:18 dolive wrote: > > Walter Bright дµ½: > > > As we all know, tool support is important for D's success. Making tools > > > easier to build will help with that. > > > > > > To that end, I think we need a lexer for the standard library - > > > std.lang.d.lex. It would be helpful in writing color syntax highlighting > > > filters, pretty printers, repl, doc generators, static analyzers, and > > > even D compilers. > > > > > > It should: > > > > > > 1. support a range interface for its input, and a range interface for its > > > output 2. optionally not generate lexical errors, but just try to > > > recover and continue 3. optionally return comments and ddoc comments as > > > tokens > > > 4. the tokens should be a value type, not a reference type > > > 5. generally follow along with the C++ one so that they can be maintained > > > in tandem > > > > > > It can also serve as the basis for creating a javascript implementation > > > that can be embedded into web pages for syntax highlighting, and > > > eventually an std.lang.d.parse. > > > > > > Anyone want to own this? > > > > intense support! Someone to do it? > > I'm working on it, but I have enough else going on right now that I'm no > being > very quick about it. I don't know when it will be done. > > - Jonathan M Davis
thanks, make an all out effort !
