Looking for champion - std.lang.d.lex

[Walter Bright]

Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> Can't say I'm really familiar with Spirit. From a brief lookover, these are 
> my impresions of the differences:
> 
> Spirit: Grammar is embedded into your source code as actual C++ code.
> Goldie: Grammar is defined in a domain-specfic language.
> But either one could probably have a wrapper to work the other way.
> 
> Spirit: Uses (abuses?) operator overloading (Although, apperently SpiritD 
> doesn't inherit Spirit's operator overloading: 
> http://www.sstk.co.uk/spiritd.php )
> Goldie: Operator overloading isn't really applicable, because of using a 
> DSL.
> 
> As they stand, Spirit seems like it could be pretty handly for simple, quick 
> little DSLs, ex, things for which Goldie might seem like overkill. But 
> Goldie's interface could probably be improved to compete pretty well in 
> those cases. OTOH, Goldie's approach (being based on GOLD) has a deliberate 
> separation between grammar and parsing, which has it's own benefits; for 
> instance, grammar definitions can be re-used for any purpose.
> 
> 

Does Goldie have (like Spirit) a set of canned routines for things like numeric 
literals?

Can the D version of Goldie be turned into one file?