Request for comments: std.d.lexer

[Brian Schott]

On Friday, 8 February 2013 at 16:38:00 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> I see we could be doing this all day. :þ

We could.

> I'll lay down the hint, dmd compiles the source, not gcc. And 
> although gcc
> may be invoked during a certain special stage of compilation, 
> its actually
> just a driver to call a certain toolchain program that is 
> outside of gcc.
> :-)

What we're saying is that dmd, The Digital Mars D Compiler, is 
written in C++ and is thus built by GCC/G++. We can tell by 
looking at the Makefile that DMD doesn't build itself.