On Sunday, 12 August 2012 at 23:35:39 UTC, bearophile wrote:
Pragma Tix:
2) http://thesoftwarelife.blogspot.fr/2012/08/d-tours.html
From the blog post:
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Another minor annoyance was the lack of an equivalent to
Java's static import. If I want to refer to the tokens as just
IF or ELSE I could make them "anonymous". But then they don't
have a specific type. Or I can give the enum a named type, but
then I have to always reference them with Token.IF . In Java I
could say import static Token.* and then just use the bare
names.
This helps:
with(Token) {
// lot and lot of code here
}
Done that before :) Quite heavily in one of my sources.
Glancing at the code for his lexer I wonder if the approach is
right. I've only written a couple half lexers for minor projects,
but he's duplicating what's in std.range & std.ascii; Also his
structure and methods go twoards suggesting he's making a range
but not working with D on it (next, nextAll vs front, popFront).
Wouldn't an actual range for his tokens/lexer be better (which
then creates/calculates and returns the current token)? I've done
this once in one of my projects and it actually turned out to
work very well.
