Removing libdparse dependency from DLS

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2020-02-21 08:57, RazvanN wrote:

> First, let me give you some context on this project. Cristi is a 
> bachelor student that is doing his thesis with me and Edi.
> 
> The primary objective of the project is twofold: make DLs use dmd as 
> library but at the same time improve the library interface and do the 
> necessary compiler modifications so that dmd-fe becomes usable. 
> Actually, integrating with DLS is just a dry run to see what kind of 
> interface does the dmd-fe need to be usable in a real life project.
> 
> However, seeing how DLS uses all the other tools that rely on libdparse 
> we thought that maybe it would be a better strategy to try and update 
> those other tools.
> 
> Any suggestions are welcome.

I would start at the bottom, not the top. That is, start by working on 
one of the tools, the one(s) at the lowest level, that DLS depends on.

I would probably start with the simplest one, that might be dfmt. But 
for, I think, that DMD needs to support end locations for tokens and 
possibly AST nodes as well.

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/Jacob Carlborg