Pegged: Syntax Highlighting

[Extrawurst]

On 17.03.2012 08:01, Philippe Sigaud wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 21:03, Andrej Mitrovic
> <andrej.mitrovich at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>>>> how would one use a parser like Pegged for syntax
>>>> highlighting?
>>>
>>> Ok, typically one would use a lexer and not a parser. But using a
>>> parser might be more interesting for creating more complex syntax
>>> highlighting. :)
>>>
>>
>> Actually I think I can use the new ddmd-clean port for just this
>> purpose. Sorry for the noise.
>
> Sorry for the late reply, I was away for a few days, in a Net-forsaken place ;)
>
> If ddmd-clean is OK for you, that's cool. Keep us informed how that went.
> If you want to use Pegged, you'd need to enter the entire D grammar to
> get a correct parse tree.
> I just finished writing it, but I'm afraid to try and compile it :)
> It's one huge monster.

I want to use Pegged for that purpose. So go ahead an commit the D 
grammar ;)
Would be so awesome if Pegged would be able to parse D.

~Extrawurst