D for Suneido

[Walter Bright]

On 8/12/2012 12:27 PM, Pragma Tix wrote:
> Am 12.08.2012 20:51, schrieb Walter Bright:
>> I suspect his problems come mostly from trying to write Java code in D.
>
> Sure, but atm I have no idea what is a good D solution for the following problem.
>
>
> Quote Andrew :
> The first thing I ran into was that the lexer returns "tokens", which in the
> Java code are not just integer enums, but actual enum classes with fields and
> methods. ......
> In typical new user fashion, I tried to reproduce the Java style token enum in
> D. (It's hard not to avoid "cutting against the grain" when learning a new
> language.) D does allow you to use structs for enums so it seemed this would
> work. But if you use structs then you lose the automatic assignment of
> consecutive integer values, and D struct's are value types so they aren't
> necessarily unique.
>
> end quote
>
> What is the D way here ?


There's a whole thread here about building a lexer in D entitled "std.d.lexer 
requirements" and another entitled "D Lexer" which should be most helpful.