Let's stop parser Hell

[Daniel Murphy]

"Jonathan M Davis" <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> wrote in message 
news:mailman.163.1341683651.31962.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
> [snip]
>
> In all honesty though, I would be surprised if you could convince Walter 
> to
> switch dmd's frontend to Phobos' lexer and parser even once they've been
> implemented. So, while I agree that there are benefits in doing so, I'm 
> not
> sure how much chance you have of ever getting any traction with that.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

A more realistic alternative is to modify dmd to optionally (at build/link 
time) use Phobos' lexer and/or parser, which would allow them to be run 
against the test suite.  Parser and lexer changes are relatively rare in the 
compiler, so keeping two implementations in sync is not really that big a 
deal.