Migrating dmd to D?

[Daniel Murphy]

"Zach the Mystic" <reachBUTMINUSTHISzach at gOOGLYmail.com> wrote in message 
news:pabfuaorrjbljxzrglbv at forum.dlang.org...
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>> Something like this https://github.com/yebblies/magicport2 ?
>
> Yes! I need to look it over more thoroughly, but I couldn't ask for a 
> better beginning. Can I trust that you'll be a willing part of future 
> discussions on this matter, even if only to play Devil's Advocate?

More like a full-blown attempt than a beginning.  I started this a long time 
ago.

There are three parts to it:
- c++ parser/d printer, with lots of cheating and special cases
- patches to the c++ source
- patched version of dmd to build the result (no error on variable shadowing 
etc)

It produces a 70000 line d file which appears to get through 3/7ths of 
semantic1.  Root needs to be ported, and a cleaner interface to the backend 
is needed to compile the glue layer.