Lang.NEXT panel (dfix)

[Bruno Medeiros via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 17/06/2014 19:10, deadalnix wrote:
> 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).
>

I don't understand what point is it you're trying to say here...
Are you saying it's ludicrous that people have written complete parsers 
for D?

>>> * 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.

How would a static if prevent a tool from adding "final" to every method 
in a specified class?


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