dmd support for IDEs

[Michel Fortin]

On 2009-10-11 14:19:52 -0400, Walter Bright <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> said:

> 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.

Indeed. And it may be a perfect fit for other tools such as a 
documentation system that can do cross-references across modules, or... 
hum perhaps even runtime reflection? :-)


>> 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.

Great.


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