Lang.NEXT panel (dfix)

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On Tuesday, 17 June 2014 at 15:45:55 UTC, Bruno Medeiros wrote:

> Dunno about DScanner, but if it's being used in DCD, I'd guess 
> it can handle the whole language, or be fairly close to it.
>
> Similarly, there is also DParser2 from MonoD and the DDT parser 
> (for the tool I'm working on)
>

HAHAHAHAHAHA ! (The author of these actual tools will tell you 
the same).

>> * Semantic analysis is needed. Otherwise as soon as someone 
>> uses
>> templates or mixins the tool won't properly work
>>
>
> I think there would be a lot of modifications that one can do 
> without semantic analysis (or limited analysis). But that's why 
> I asked for examples of dfix scenarios.
>

Until you hit a static if. Which is always.

> Adding "final" to every method in certain classes could be done 
> without semantic analysis. Reworking certain constructs to 
> different constructs possibly as well (for example change 
> foreach_reverse to just foreach usage)

ditto.