Mihaela Chirea - SAOC 2020 Milestone 3 Update 2 - Improving DMD as a Library
RSY
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Sun Dec 13 06:49:33 UTC 2020
On Sunday, 13 December 2020 at 00:24:50 UTC, Mihaela Chirea wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Here is an update of the progress made since the last update:
> - Worked on the FileManager
> - Checked the locations of all AST nodes produced by the
> parser. Besides VarDeclaration and FuncDeclaration that start
> with the names and skip the types and storage classes (as
> mentioned here [1]), CallExp also seems to start at a weird
> position: skips the function name and sets loc to the location
> of '(':
>
> foo(1, 2); // starts at column 4
> 1.foo(2); // starts at column 6
>
> Next steps:
> - Finish integrating the FileManager into the compiler
> - Start looking into hiding the TypeInfo nodes when not needed
> [2]
> - Insert a UserAttributeDeclarationItem node (as suggested
> here[3]) to preserve the location of user defined attributes
>
> The tasks I planned for this project can be found here [4]
>
> [1]
> https://forum.dlang.org/post/oqbvebbgpyeyxadgisfb@forum.dlang.org
> [2]
> https://forum.dlang.org/post/iopxhnudlrgiqwjxzihe@forum.dlang.org
> [3]
> https://forum.dlang.org/post/ymtjsccajclfhjrwjcrj@forum.dlang.org
> [4]
> https://forum.dlang.org/post/kfcxcjauafpcrmfuajam@forum.dlang.org
Thanks for your work!
I believe many are looking for using the compiler as a library
for things like server language in IDEs, so that's awesome!
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