DCT: D compiler as a collection of libraries

[Roman D. Boiko]

On Friday, 11 May 2012 at 12:55:58 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2012-05-11 14:07, Roman D. Boiko wrote:
>> On Friday, 11 May 2012 at 11:49:23 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>
>>> Found it now, "calculateFor". It not sure if it's the most 
>>> intuitive
>>> name though. I get the feeling: "calculate what?".
>
>> calculateLocation was original name, but I don't like 
>> repeating return
>> type in method names, I decided to change it so that it is 
>> clear that
>> another renaming is needed ;) Any suggestions?
>>
>
> My original suggestion was to have the functionality in Token, 
> which would have made for intuitive names: line, column and 
> file. But since you didn't like that I have to give it some 
> thought.

What about the following signature: Location locate(size_t index)?
Or even better:
alias size_t CodeUnitIndex;
Location locateFor(CodeUnitIndex position);

The problem with placing it in Token is that Token should not 
know anything about source as a whole.