Parsing D Maybe Not Such a Good Idea <_<;

[Shachar Shemesh via Digitalmars-d]

On 15/06/16 08:27, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> IMHO, you're thinking about this at the wrong level of abstraction.

I tend to agree.

>
> The first order of business, before you even think about parsing, should
> be to tokenize (or lex) the input. This is the stage where you break up
> the input into atomic chunks: keywords, parentheses, commas,
> identifiers, etc.. Comments can simply be scanned once and discarded.

No. The lexer is, typically, a regular language. /+ +/ comments are not 
parsable using a regular language.

Shachar