dmd Lexer and Parser in D

[Daniel Murphy]

"Nick Sabalausky" <a at a.a> wrote in message 
news:jgjngv$2je9$1 at digitalmars.com...
> I'm interested in a D *API* for taking in D sources and spitting out the 
> user's choice of either the parser results, or an AST with all the 
> semantics/CTFE/etc already run. I get the impressiona lot of people are 
> intrested in this.
>

This is not that far off.  I've got a branch of dmd, with a di file for 
every h file, that is able to link to itself.  There are still some issues 
with vtables and static variables but hopefully I will sort them out in the 
near future.

What would the D api look like?  If D can link to c++ well enough to call 
into the dmd source, building an api on top of that wouldn't be that bad.

> I suspect having it D might be a pain until a lot more issues get 
> resolved. A bootstrapping compiler, I would imagine, would need a much 
> more stable base than other types of software would need (though I don't 
> have any experience with bootstrapping compilers, so I could be wrong).

Yeah.