Request for comments: std.d.lexer

[H. S. Teoh]

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 01:48:02PM +0100, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2013-01-31 13:34, FG wrote:
> 
> >Do you know where you can safely cut it without having it lexed
> >beforehand? :)
> 
> I was thinking that myself. It would probably be possible to just
> cut it in the middle and then lex a few characters forward and
> backwards until you get a valid token. Try and calculate the correct
> index where to cut.
[...]

Doesn't work if the middle happens to be inside a string literal
containing code. Esp. a q{} literal (you wouldn't be able to tell where
it starts/ends without scanning the entire file, because the {}'s nest).


T

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