DDMD and such.

[Gor Gyolchanyan]

Damn! a library lexer and parser of D! I think we'll eventually drop
the "compile-time only" restriction from mixins! :-)

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 11:47 PM, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 28, 2011 17:09:24 Gor Gyolchanyan wrote:
>> I know, this has been discussed earlier, but i don't quite understand
>> the real reason why isn't DMD's front-end being written in D.
>> Existing DDMD is pointless (and i think abandoned), because it's just
>> a plain rewrite with the same C-style constructs and completely
>> rewriting it to be a correct D code would mean being unable to get the
>> bug-fixes on DMD.
>> I remember, that Walter said about the problems with compatibility
>> with the back-end, that would arise.
>> But isn't D supposed to be binary compatible with C?
>> AFAIK the only extra thing to be done would be to provide a C facade
>> around the D front-end, that would be given to the back-end.
>> Why not?
>
> I would point out that there is an intention to eventually get a D lexer and
> parser into Phobos so that tools can take advantage of them. Those could
> eventually lead to a frontend in D but would provide benefits far beyond simply
> having the compiler in D.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis
>