Damn! a library lexer and parser of D! I think we'll eventually drop the "compile-time only" restriction from mixins! :-)
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 11:47 PM, Jonathan M Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wednesday, September 28, 2011 17:09:24 Gor Gyolchanyan wrote: >> I know, this has been discussed earlier, but i don't quite understand >> the real reason why isn't DMD's front-end being written in D. >> Existing DDMD is pointless (and i think abandoned), because it's just >> a plain rewrite with the same C-style constructs and completely >> rewriting it to be a correct D code would mean being unable to get the >> bug-fixes on DMD. >> I remember, that Walter said about the problems with compatibility >> with the back-end, that would arise. >> But isn't D supposed to be binary compatible with C? >> AFAIK the only extra thing to be done would be to provide a C facade >> around the D front-end, that would be given to the back-end. >> Why not? > > I would point out that there is an intention to eventually get a D lexer and > parser into Phobos so that tools can take advantage of them. Those could > eventually lead to a frontend in D but would provide benefits far beyond > simply > having the compiler in D. > > - Jonathan M Davis >
