BNF grammar for D?

[Bruno Medeiros via Digitalmars-d]

On 27/10/2014 22:53, landaire wrote:
> On Monday, 27 October 2014 at 22:43:55 UTC, Jeremy Powers via
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>
>> From my mucking about before, I think you'll get more mileage from using
>> libdparse directly than trying to (re)implement a parser for the plugin.
>> For one, you save yourself all the pain of fixing weird edge cases and
>> keeping up to date.
>
> I agree, but integrating something external with IntelliJ's platform
> seems like kind of a PITA. It looks like a lot of stuff makes heavy use
> of PSI trees (see:
> https://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/IDEADEV/Developing+Custom+Language+Plugins+for+IntelliJ+IDEA#DevelopingCustomLanguagePluginsforIntelliJIDEA-ImplementingaParserandPSI)
>
>
> I'm no expert in developing IntelliJ plugins either though...

Have you considered the option of creating a Psi parser than creates 
PsiElements from the AST parsed by DDT's DTool ? That would should be 
fairly straightforward.

With of a fork of DDT/Dtool, you can even easily modify the DDT/Dtool 
parser to generate those PsiElements directly.


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