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.
Pretty impossible I think.
They are written in C++ and there's no real such thing as an interface.
They access the AST nodes directly.
Also IIRC they modify the nodes to contain specific information for their
backend.
How about that? We could take Dil's parser and work on it as an
alternative to starting from scratch.
Yeah but as I said, it's D1/Tango and GPL.
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.
Agreed, but semantic analysis != parser :)
