inverse of std.demangle?

[Timothee Cour]

On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Adam D. Ruppe
<destructionator at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wednesday, 10 July 2013 at 16:30:25 UTC, Timothee Cour wrote:
>
>> Do you have a pointer for that function in dmd ?
>>
>
> The compiler doesn't do it as one function, I mean it can parse as string
> and mangle it in the process of compiling code.
>
> To go from demangled string => mangled string, you'd first parse the
> demangled string as a declaration and turn it into a symbol, then mangle
> that symbol.
>
>
> But.... if you just want to do really simple cases, maybe this isn't too
> hard. I just quickly slapped this file together:
>
> http://arsdnet.net/dcode/**mangle.d <http://arsdnet.net/dcode/mangle.d>
>
>
> It is very basic, but might work for a lot of cases - it handled some
> basic functions I tried. Perhaps not too hard to add support for more from
> here.
>
> As you can see by looking at the code, the way it works is:
>
> 1) tokenize the input string (it does this in a stupid way, and doesn't
> know all of D's symbols and keywords, but it doesn't have to be too smart
> since demangle produces fairly predictable input, so I think it will be ok).
>
> 2) runs a simple, stupid parser to get the components of the function -
> return type, name, and arguments. To add support for templates, extern(C),
> and so on, this would need to be expanded.
>
> 3) put the pieces back together in a wholly mangled form, borrowing one
> helper array from core.demangle.
>
>
>
> There's a main function at the bottom of the file that does one of the few
> tests I tried with it.
>


also, can you push it to
your misc-stuff-including-D-programming-language-web-stuff git repo?
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