DCT: D compiler as a collection of libraries

[Roman D. Boiko]

On Friday, 11 May 2012 at 09:28:36 UTC, dennis luehring wrote:
> Am 11.05.2012 11:23, schrieb Roman D. Boiko:
>> On Friday, 11 May 2012 at 09:19:07 UTC, dennis luehring wrote:
>>> does the parser/lexer allow half-finished syntax parsing? for
>>> being useable in an IDE for syntax-highlighting while coding?
>> That's planned, but I would like to see your usage scenarios
>> (pseudo-code would help a lot).
>>
>
> try to syntaxhiglight while coding - thats the scenario, parts
> of the source code isn't fully valid while writing

I depends on IDE. For example, sublime-text (and most likely 
TextMate) uses regex for syntax highlighting. That makes it 
impossible to use with for D in some scenarios (like nested block 
comments). Any IDE that provides API for coloring will get 
correct information if code is valid.

If it is not valid, it is only possible to handle specific kinds 
of errors, but in general there will always be cases when 
highlighting (or some parsing / semantic analysis information) is 
"incorrect". I aim to handle common errors gracefully.

In practice, I think, it is possible to handle 99% of problems, 
but this requires a lot of design / specification work.