Migrating dmd to D?

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2013-02-28 04:49, Walter Bright wrote:

> There's a lot of lore in the original code involving arcana about how
> things really work. If you refactor and translate at the same time, you
> don't have an incremental conversion you can run through the test suite
> at each step.

I interpreted Ary's post as basically doing a clean room implementation. 
Not translate the existing code.

> Hey, anyone can ignore me and go ahead and do it that way. I wish you
> the best of luck - sometimes us old coots are dead wrong - but forgive
> me if I'm not going to be terribly sympathetic if you ignore my advice
> and things go badly!

There are already several people doing clean room implementations. At 
least of the front end.

* Dil
* SDC
* A couple of lexers/parsers

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/Jacob Carlborg