DCT: D compiler as a collection of libraries

[deadalnix]

Le 11/05/2012 11:31, Roman D. Boiko a écrit :
> On Friday, 11 May 2012 at 09:02:12 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> If think that the end goal of a project like this, putting a D
>> frontend in Phobos, should be that the compiler should be built using
>> this library. This would result in the compiler and library always
>> being in sync and having the same behavior. Otherwise it's easy this
>> would be just another tool that tries to lex and parse D code, always
>> being out of sync with the compiler and not having the same behavior.
>>
>> For this to happen, for Walter to start using this, I think there
>> would be a greater change if the frontend was a port of the DMD
>> frontend and not changed too much.
>
> My plan is to create frontend that would be much better than existing,
> both in design and implementation. I decided to work on this full time
> for several months.
>

I this is your plan, I'm very happy. We really should discuss to avoid 
duplicating effort as we are doing right now.