Looking for champion - std.lang.d.lex

dolive dolive89 at sina.com
Sat Feb 26 02:06:18 PST 2011


Walter Bright дµ½:

> 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?

intense support! Someone to do it?




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