On 08/03/2012 05:08 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Thursday, August 02, 2012 23:00:41 Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 8/2/12 10:40 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
To reiterate another point, since we are in the compiler business,
people will expect std.d.lexer to be of top quality, not some bag on the
side. It needs to be usable as a base for writing a professional quality
compiler. It's the reason why I'm pushing much harder on this than I do
for other modules.
The lexer must be configurable enough to tokenize other languages than
D. I confess I'm very unhappy that there seem to be no less than three
people determined to write lexers for D. We're wasting precious talent
and resources doubly. Once, several people are working in parallel on
the same product. Second, none of them is actually solving the problem
that should be solved.
You're not going to get as fast a lexer if it's not written specifically for D.
This should certainly be possible.
Writing a generic lexer is a different problem.
It is a more general problem.
