EBNF grammar for D?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 3/12/12 11:03 PM, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
> 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.

I'd love to embed a D parser inside Phobos, even though it's not the 
implementation used inside the compiler.

Andrei