On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Trass3r <[email protected]> wrote: > > It's not only about frontend/backend separation. > The frontend needs to be fully modular. Some applications might not even wish > to build up a full AST (like TCC and GCC) while others like refactoring tools > need highly detailed information about the original source code. > So for example the parser must not directly build an AST, but rather take an > interface with ActOnForeachStmt like methods. >
Yes. I agree. Hm... What if we make a highly modular D-based front-end like that and provide a DMD-front-end adapter for it? That wouldn't break anything. DMC, GCC and LLVM would still get the required data, taken from a front-end with the same interface, so neither of three compilers would notice the change. How about that? We could take Dil's parser and work on it as an alternative to starting from scratch. On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Trass3r <[email protected]> wrote: > > What about dil's parser isn't working? > I thought it was pretty complete. > It doesn't do semantic analysis. Without semantic analysis, it's useless beyond ddoc.
