ctfe library

[Ellery Newcomer]

On 04/20/2010 01:02 PM, div0 wrote:
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> Ellery Newcomer wrote:
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>> As ctfe support matures, I dream of a full-fledged parser generator that
>> can be evaluated at compile time, although that's way more heavy duty
>> than what most people will need.
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> My spirit port might be an option at some point soon:
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> http://www.sstk.co.uk/spiritd.php
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Yeah, I had spiritd in the back of my mind when I wrote that. I've never 
used spirit, but from a once-over of the docs, it looks like something I 
should make a point of getting familiar with this summer.

> Haven't tried it with current d2 compilers, but should still work w/ d1.
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> It uses lots of template code to compose parsers, so in theory it ought
> to be usable at compile time. I doubt it can be used that way at the
> moment, but hopefully dmd will get there and then you'll be able to do
> some seriously funky stuff at compile time.

That would be awesome.