dmd support for IDEs

[Walter Bright]

Michel Fortin wrote:
> It's not clear to me how much getting supplementary data from the 
> compiler could help. If I only get what I can see through Ddoc, it's 
> only half useful. I can already parse and get character ranges for the 
> the high-level constructs (classes, tempaltes, functions, etc.). What 
> will be harder is matching each symbol in function code to the correct 
> definition because that depends on the context of the function and doing 
> autocompletion for what you type depending on what's available in a 
> given context.

I agree it's only half useful. But I think it's still a big win over 
zero useful.


> Also, can DMD accept D files from stdin? That way files wouldn't need to 
> be saved on disk on each keystroke.

No, but it's a good idea.