Looking for champion - std.lang.d.lex

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Why not creating a DLL/so based Lexer/Parser based on the existing DMD 
front end.? It could be always up to date. Necessary Steps. functional 
wrappers around C++ classes, Implementing the visitor pattern (AST), 
create std.lex and std.parse..

my 2 cents

On 22/10/2010 00:01, Walter Bright wrote:
> As we all know, tool support is important for D's success. Making tools
> easier to build will help with that.
>
> To that end, I think we need a lexer for the standard library -
> std.lang.d.lex. It would be helpful in writing color syntax highlighting
> filters, pretty printers, repl, doc generators, static analyzers, and
> even D compilers.
>
> It should:
>
> 1. support a range interface for its input, and a range interface for
> its output
> 2. optionally not generate lexical errors, but just try to recover and
> continue
> 3. optionally return comments and ddoc comments as tokens
> 4. the tokens should be a value type, not a reference type
> 5. generally follow along with the C++ one so that they can be
> maintained in tandem
>
> It can also serve as the basis for creating a javascript implementation
> that can be embedded into web pages for syntax highlighting, and
> eventually an std.lang.d.parse.
>
> Anyone want to own this?