D1 -> D2 Code converter

jicman via Digitalmars-d-learn digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Mon Apr 6 19:21:44 PDT 2015


On Monday, 6 April 2015 at 20:48:05 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> On Monday, 6 April 2015 at 20:25:39 UTC, jicman wrote:
>>
>> Greetings!
>>
>> Has anyone written any quick program to convert d1 code to d2?
>>  I believe it will be a fine piece of program. :-)  Thanks.
>>
>> josé
>
> It is surprisingly difficult, to the point of being almost 
> impossible, to write such program. Problem is there are no 
> simple 1-to-1 replacements for some of D1 concepts (like const 
> storage class or array stomping) and adding const qualifiers 
> automatically would require to effectively implement D1 
> compiler semantic stage with full code flow analysis. Combined, 
> those 2 issues make creating such program hardly feasible.
>
> I will speaker about it in details in my DConf presentation 
> (http://dconf.org/2015/talks/strasuns.html)

Very interesting.  It's like another complete language all by 
itself. :-)  Thanks.


More information about the Digitalmars-d-learn mailing list