Let's stop parser Hell

[Roman D. Boiko]

On Thursday, 5 July 2012 at 18:28:21 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 7/5/12 2:16 PM, Philippe Sigaud wrote:
>> So Pegged or any other generator should *not* get the 
>> community focus right now.
>
> Pegged should be the focus.

+10 (can I vote ten times?)

>> My plan would be as follow:
>>
>> 1- assemble a group of people knowing parsing. I don't think 
>> I'm exactly
>> knowledgeable, but I'm ready to be part of such a group.
>> 2- create a github process.
>> 3- translate an existing parser / adapt a D parser for Phobos. 
>> I'm ready
>> to be part of this (I'm sure I'll learn in the process)
>> 4- spend 1-2 years fighting over LR parsing and such :) (Just 
>> kidding)
>> 5- submit it to Phobos and have it adopted.
>
> Sounds good. Replace 1-2 years with 1-2 months.

Well, probably with 3-4 months... :)