"Gor Gyolchanyan" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> I'd gladly help you with this. I'm very excited to have a parser in
> Phobos!
>
I was actually thinking more just the lexer. I'd probably let someone else
do the parser. My parsing experience is mostly limited to LALR, and to parse
D it would take a fairly advanced LALR engine to do it properly. So LL may
be better. Plus, DMD already uses LL.
Keep in mind, too, that even with both a lexer and parser, that still
wouldn't get you very close to being able to actually compile D from within
D (although you can kind of already do that: system("rdmd main.d"); ),
because the lexing and parsing are the easy parts (relatively spaking). The
hard part is all the post-parsing stuff: sematics, typesystem, CTFE,
templates, etc.
