dmd support for IDEs and the D tool chain

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Ellery Newcomer" <ellery-newcomer at utulsa.edu> wrote in message 
news:hbak0n$q5b$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> "Denis Koroskin" <2korden at gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:op.u1v7jdgco7cclz at korden-pc...
>>> Yes, it's a DMD port. Unfortunately, there is no other mature D 
>>> front-end
>>> at present. Other folks are working on D compilers (dil, dang, ...) but
>>> the progress is very slow.
>>
>> FWIW, I've been meaning to try to write a D grammar for GOLD when I get a
>> chance (the Haxe grammar I wrote only took a few days). If that pans out
>> (depends just how simple and unambiguous the grammar is), then that could 
>> be
>> used with Goldie as a starting point (ie, lex/parse would be taken care 
>> of.
>> Semantic analysis, optimization and back-end would need to be added in).
>>
>
> All but the hard parts :)

Yea, like I said, "FWIW" ;)

>
> I could count the number of places that are ambiguous syntactically or
> semantically on one hand, and maybe the number of places that require
> arbitrary lookahead also. Do LALR parsers care about arbitrary
> lookahead? LL(k) parsers do.

Beats me, I'm not nearly as up on parsing theory as I'd like to be. Could 
you give me a simple example?