Please stop doing this.

Timothee Cour thelastmammoth at gmail.com
Wed Oct 30 12:59:48 PDT 2013


actually the author of Dscanner would probably feel the same:
I've reported a number of issues that were due to mismatch bw D spec and
dmd:
https://github.com/Hackerpilot/Dscanner/issues?state=open


On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Brian Schott <briancschott at gmail.com>wrote:

> Stop modifying the language without also modifying the language spec.
>
> Seriously.
>
> Stop it.
>
> Pull requests that modify the parser should be rejected unless they also
> have the corresponding changes to the language grammar.
>
> I spend a decent amount of my spare time on D development tooling and I'm
> getting sick of the "Your parser rejects X", "X isn't in the language
> spec", "DMD accepts X" cycle.
>
> The current situation is that the only REAL documentation on D's syntax is
> the front-end source code, and this is ridiculous.
>
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