Overloading/Inheritance issue

Jascha Wetzel "[firstname]" at mainia.de
Tue Aug 7 03:44:31 PDT 2007


Bill Baxter wrote:
> It might be neat to define an API for the compiler.  I mean an api that 
> would let you write programs that link to d-compiler.lib to do various 
> things like get an AST etc.  I know D syntax tries to be easy to parse, 
> but why not just have the spec also specify an api for would-be D 
> compilers.  Giving a compiler a well defined API is not really something 
> specific to D but it would make a lot of things easier.

FWIW, i'm writing a library like that ATM.
i'm testing it with various D code right now. it parses phobos, i'm 
going through tango now. dstress will be next.



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