Let's stop parser Hell

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Tuesday, July 31, 2012 23:10:37 Philippe Sigaud wrote:
> Having std.lexer in Phobos would be quite good. With a pre-compiled lexer
> for D.

I'm actually quite far along with one now - one which is specifically written 
and optimized for lexing D. I'll probably be done with it not too long after 
the 2.060 release (though we'll see). Writing it has been going surprisingly 
quickly actually, and I've already found some bugs in the spec as a result 
(some of which have been fixed, some of which I still need to create pull 
requests for). So, regardless of what happens with my lexer, at least the spec 
will be more accurate.

- Jonathan M Davis