AST like coding syntax. Easy upgrade!

[bitwise via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 6 September 2015 at 22:37:16 UTC, cym13 wrote:
> On Sunday, 6 September 2015 at 21:16:18 UTC, Prudence wrote:
>>[...]
>
> 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.

Many IDEs support multiple languages and can infer language 
automatically by syntax. It's probably much more difficult than 
it seems, but I suppose one of these IDEs could be made to parse 
and infer D token strings separately.