Syntax question...

[Hasan Aljudy]

If you just want to create D with different syntax, I think you can 
write a stand-alone parser then use it convert your other-syntax code to 
D syntax.

RA wrote:
> I was curious about how hard it would be to create a different “language 
> front end” for D? 
> 
> Since you (Walter) have made the compiler front end (lexer, parser, etc) 
> source code available,
> 
> would it be possible for someone to modify it and create a different 
> (for example, something
> 
> more like VB) language syntax that would still work with the back end 
> compiler?
> 
>  
> 
> I realize most of you long time C\C++ programmers probably couldn’t see 
> any need for
> 
> such a thing, but others of us (at least me) would prefer something not 
> quite as cryptic
> 
> as C like syntax.
> 
>  
> 
> I’ve never written a compiler\lexer\parser\etc. so I don’t know what all 
> would be involved
> 
> in creating a different syntax.  In theory, it doesn’t seem like it 
> should be “all” that hard…
> 
> But then, naiveté is great isn’t it.  J
>