std.d.lexer : voting thread

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Wednesday, October 02, 2013 16:41:54 Dicebot wrote:
> After brief discussion with Brian and gathering data from the
> review thread, I have decided to start voting for `std.d.lexer`
> inclusion into Phobos.

I'm going to have to vote no.

While Brian has done some great work, I think that it's clear from the 
discussion that there are still some potential issues (e.g. requiring a string 
table) that need further discussion and possibly API changes. Also, while I 
question that a generated lexer can beat a hand-written one, I think that we 
really should look at what Andrei's proposing and look at adjusting whan Brian 
has done accordingly - or at least do enough so that we can benchmark the two 
approaches. As such, accepting the lexer right now doesn't really make sense.

However, we may want to make it so that the lexer is in some place of 
prominence (outside of Phobos - probably on dub but mentioned somewhere on 
dlang.org) as an _experimental_ module which is clearly marked as not finalized 
but which is ready for people to use and bang on. That way, we may be able to 
get some better feedback generated from more real world use.

- Jonathan M Davis