std.d.lexer requirements

Jonathan M Davis jmdavisProg at gmx.com
Thu Aug 2 21:19:46 PDT 2012


On Friday, August 03, 2012 06:14:08 Timon Gehr wrote:
> If it is optimal for D lexing and close-optimal or optimal for other
> languages then it is profoundly more useful than just a D lexer.

If fully concur that we should have a generic lexer, but unless the generic 
lexer can be just as fast as a hand-written one (which I seriously question), 
then I definitely think that we're going to want both, not just a generic one.

- Jonathan M Davis


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