std.d.lexer requirements

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Thu Aug 2 11:02:08 PDT 2012


On 8/2/2012 4:27 AM, deadalnix wrote:
> Really nice idea. It is still easy to wrap the Range in another Range that
> process errors in a custom way.

It's suboptimal for a high speed lexer/parser, as already explained.

Speed is of paramount importance for a lexer, and it overrides things like 
elegance and simplicity.



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