Looking for champion - std.lang.d.lex

[Matthias Pleh]

Am 20.11.2010 00:56, schrieb Michael Stover:
> so that was 4 months ago - how do things currently stand on that initiative?
>
> -Mike
>
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 6:37 PM, Bruno Medeiros
> <brunodomedeiros+spam at com.gmail> wrote:
>
>     On 19/11/2010 22:25, Michael Stover wrote:
>
>         As for D lexers and tokenizers, what would be nice is to
>         A) build an antlr grammar for D
>         B) build D targets for antlr so that antlr can generate lexers and
>         parsers in the D language.
>
>         For B) I found http://www.mbutscher.de/antlrd/index.html
>
>         For A) A good list of antlr grammars is at
>         http://www.antlr.org/grammar/list, but there isn't a D grammar.
>
>         These things wouldn't be an enormous amount of work to create and
>         maintain, and, if done, anyone could parse D code in many languages,
>         including Java and C which would make providing IDE features for D
>         development easier in those languages (eclipse for instance),
>         and you
>         could build lexers and parsers in D using antlr grammars.
>
>         -Mike
>
>
>     Yes, that would be much better. It would be directly and immediately
>     useful for the DDT project:
>
>     "But better yet would be to start coding our own custom parser
>     (using a parser generator like ANTLR for example), that could really
>     be tailored for IDE needs. In the medium/long term, that's probably
>     what needs to be done. "
>     in
>     http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/ide/Future_of_Descent_and_D_Eclipse_IDE_635.html
>
>     --
>     Bruno Medeiros - Software Engineer
>
>

There is a project with an antlr D-grammar in work.
http://code.google.com/p/vs-d-integration/

Maybe this can be finished?

matthias