Want to help DMD bugfixing? Write a simple utility.

[spir]

On 03/24/2011 08:53 AM, Alexey Prokhin wrote:
> Currently, as far as I know, there are only two lexers and two parsers for
>  D: the C++ front end which dmd, gdc, and ldc use and the D front end which
>  ddmd uses and which is based on the C++ front end. Both of those are under
>  the GPL (which makes them useless for a lot of stuff) and both of them are
>  tied to compilers. Being able to lex D code and get the list of tokens in
>  a D program and being able to parse D code and get the resultant abstract
>  syntax tree would be very useful for a number of programs.

I fully support this. We desperately need it, I guess, working and maintained 
along language evolution.
This is the whole purpose of the GSOC proposal "D tools in D": 
http://prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?GSOC_2011_Ideas#DtoolsinD
Semantic analysis, introduced step by step, would be a huge plus.

Denis
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