EBNF grammar for D?

Alex Rønne Petersen xtzgzorex at gmail.com
Mon Mar 12 21:03:25 PDT 2012


On 13-03-2012 05:00, James Miller wrote:
> On 13 March 2012 16:47, Andrei Alexandrescu
> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org>  wrote:
>> On 3/12/12 10:36 PM, James Miller wrote:
>>>
>>> I agree, automatic generation of the grammar rules would be incredibly
>>> useful for D tools. It doesn't necessarily have to be in a
>>> human-readable format, or even in a specific grammar format, just up
>>> to date. We can always have something to convert it into a specific
>>> format for whatever we are doing. We are programmers after all.
>>
>>
>> I think being up-to-date is becoming less of a matter now that the language
>> is stable. Changes in syntax are already very rare.
>>
>> Andrei
>
> True, in that case we need to make sure we actually have a completely
> up to date grammar for the language somewhere then. All in one place.
>
> --
> James Miller

Visual D's parser would be a good place to start, I suppose.

-- 
- Alex


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