GSOC 2011

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On 03/24/2011 05:30 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 3/23/11 11:42 AM, Luca Boasso wrote:
>> Sorry for the late reply,
>> even tough I'm not an ANTLR expert, given my previous experience with the tool
>> and having read most of the official book, I could help more on this GSOC
>> idea.
>>
>> I have looked at http://www.antlr.org/grammar/list and on google and I could not
>> find any recent ANTLR grammar for D.
>> In my opinion this project could be a good contribution for the D community
>> while being practical and useful in the short term.
>
> There are two aspects: writing an ANTLR grammar that parses D (which you are
> referring to) and also adding to ANTLR the capability of generating D. The
> latter would allow D users to create and use parsers for various languages. It
> would also require close cooperation with the ANTLR people for acceptance etc.
>
> (Sticking with the former project for now.) This is a technically interesting
> project. I'd need to hear more about the high-level motivation. What is the
> "business" motivation? There is already a parser for D written in C++ (the
> open-source front-end of dmd), so the project would need to build a good case
> for the added value. Also there are other D parser projects that people work on
> (ddmd comes to mind), so I'd need to hear a lot more in the way of justifying
> the utility of such a project.

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