AST like coding syntax. Easy upgrade!

[cym13 via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 6 September 2015 at 21:16:18 UTC, Prudence wrote:
> Or, maybe better yet, have the concept of "code strings". which 
> are strings that are suppose to be interpreted as code. This 
> then means the compiler just has to do a syntax check for 
> errors before it does anything else with them(semantics will be 
> checked lazy, which is already implemented).

There already is a kind of "code string":

     interpret(q{
          var a = 2;
          var b += a;
     });

It doesn't do any kind of syntax check, but there again how do 
you want to have syntax check for any language? The D compiler is 
a D compiler, it can't support js syntax or whatever.