On 6/1/12 8:39 AM, Ken wrote:
Great! So what's the next step? Do we wait for the maintainers of one of
the CTFE parser gen packages to drop it in the Phobos Review Queue? Do a
reimplementation for Phobos?
We could attack this in pieces. Start with a lexer/FSA generator (like
Ragel but using CTFE) - this will make it much easier to consume many
wire protocols, for starters (I found it very easy to make a simple HTTP
client using Ragel), and will be quite useful on its own. Then extend it
into a lexer for a parser generator.
I think this core strength of the language should be properly supplanted
by library support, so I'd be very interested to look at Phobos
proposals. The proposals should come with sample grammars of nontrivial
size, ideally a parser for the entire D language.
There might be things to fix in the compiler, e.g. memory consumption.
Andrei
