What library functionality would you most like to see in D?

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Sun Jul 31 05:41:48 PDT 2011


On 2011-07-31 12:36, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> The idea behind the hand-written D lexer (and eventually parser) for D is that
> it follows the implementation of the compiler's front-end, and so using it to
> process D code will have the same result as running the compiler. It obviously
> doesn't scale beyond D itself.

I would really hope that the compiler itself could be built on top of 
the font end that will hopefully end up in Phobos. Then they would 
always be in sync and produce correct results.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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