std.d.lexer : voting thread

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> wrote:
> On 2013-10-05 02:24, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> 
>> Thanks all involved for the work, first of all Brian.
>> 
>> I have the proverbial good news and bad news. The only bad news is that
>> I'm voting "no" on this proposal.
>> 
>> [Snip]
> 
> Is this something in the middle of a hand written lexer and a lexer
> automatically generated?

I don't understand this question.

> I think we can have both. A hand written lexer, specifically targeted for
> D that is very fast. Then a more general lexer that can be used for many languages.

I agree with Artur that this is a fallacy.

> I have to say I think this is a bit unfair to dump this huge thing in the
> voting thread. You haven't made a single post in the discussion thread
> and now you're coming with this big suggestions in the voting thread.

The way I see it it's unfair of you to claim that. All I did was to vote
and to explain that vote. I was very explicit I don't want to pull rank or
anything. Besides it was an idea and such things are hard to time.

I think std.d.lexer is a fine product that works as advertised. But I also
believe very strongly that it doesn't exploit D's advantages and that
adopting it would lock us into a suboptimal API. I have strengthened this
opinion only since yesterday morning.


Andrei