Migrating dmd to D?

[Daniel Murphy]

"Zach the Mystic" <reachBUTMINUSTHISzach at gOOGLYmail.com> wrote in message 
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> On Sunday, 3 March 2013 at 07:27:51 UTC, Daniel Murphy wrote:
>>> Now you're as up-to-date as I am on what I'm thinking.
>>
>> I did something like that before (token-level pattern matching) and found
>> the number of special cases to be much much too high.  You need so much
>> context information you're better off just building an ast and operating 
>> on
>> that.
>
> What were the biggest and most common reasons you needed context 
> information?

Turning implicit into explicit conversions.  A big one is 0 -> Loc(0). 
dinteger_t -> size_t.  void* -> char*.  string literal to char*.  string 
literal to unsigned char*.  unsigned -> unsigned char.  int -> bool.