BNF grammar for D?

[Bruno Medeiros via Digitalmars-d]

On 31/10/2014 12:16, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
> On 1/11/2014 12:35 a.m., Bruno Medeiros wrote:
>> On 27/10/2014 22:35, Jeremy Powers via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>>
>>> An interesting path to take for an intellij plugin would be to use his
>>> DCD/libdparse for all the heavy lifting, with the plugin just farming
>>> out the work to external daemon process(es).  That would avoid having
>>> yet another lexer/parser implementation to keep up to date.
>>
>> Integrating DCD might work well, because autocompletion is used
>> sporadically (and is invoked explicitly by the user). But parsing is
>> probably invoked quite often by IntelliJ, and as such it could be tricky
>> to integrate with libdparse (because you'd have to invoke an external
>> process all the time)
>
>  From my small test file with my attempt at this, its fine to call e.g.
> DScanner to grab the ast. Its actually pretty fast which I was a little
> shocked about.
>

How fast is "pretty fast"? Milliseconds please.

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