What library functionality would you most like to see in D?

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2012-05-11 09:31, Roman D. Boiko wrote:
> On Friday, 11 May 2012 at 06:23:07 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> On 2012-05-10 21:00, Tove wrote:
>>> On Sunday, 31 July 2011 at 14:10:12 UTC, Heywood Floyd wrote:
>>>> - Incremental Garbage collector (for real-time apps)
>>>> - More example code snippets in the docs (for all libs)
>>>
>>> The entire compiler as a library. :D
>>>
>>
>> I would love to see that in Phobos.
>
> Please take a look at https://github.com/roman-d-boiko/dct
>
> It is an early draft and not tested after restructuring.
>
> What would be needed for that code to become a bit closer for Phobos
> inclusion? Any feedback is highly appreciated.

A couple of questions:

* What's the sate of the lexer
* Does it convert numerical literals and similar to their actual values
* Does it retain full source information
* Is there an example we can look at to see how the API is used
* Does it have a range based interface

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/Jacob Carlborg