dfmt 0.1.0

Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Fri Mar 6 18:25:02 PST 2015


On 3/6/2015 1:54 AM, Brian Schott wrote:
> On Friday, 6 March 2015 at 09:39:13 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> True, but on the other hand, a D lexer and parser are pretty simple.
>
> Did you mean "simple compared to C++"?

It's simple in both absolute terms and relative to C++ terms. It's not as simple 
as Java's.


> I remember having to report/fix a LOT of
> bugs in the language specification and explore the DMD front end source code to
> get to where I am now.

True, but there have been very few bugs in the lexer/parser itself. My laziness 
in being pedantically correct in writing the specification is an orthogonal issue.



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