Migrating dmd to D?

[Shahid]

On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:58:27 -0800, Walter Bright wrote:

> On 2/27/2013 5:11 PM, Ary Borenszweig wrote:
>> If you do it, I think it's an excellent opportunity to rewrite the
>> compiler *from scratch*, using features in D, and probably using a
>> better design. It's probably easier to design the compiler now that all
>> the features are more or less known. I also remember that DMD didn't
>> have a visitor of sort for the semantic analysis.
>>
>>
> My experience with such things is it, while tempting, has a large
> probability of destroying the project entirely.

I wholeheartedly agree with Walter on this. I'd like to see as much 1:1 
translation as possible first, then refactoring can begin.