Looking for champion - std.lang.d.lex

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Saturday 26 February 2011 02:06:18 dolive wrote:
> Walter Bright ÐŽµœ:
> > 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?

I'm working on it, but I have enough else going on right now that I'm no being 
very quick about it. I don't know when it will be done.

- Jonathan M Davis