Parser

[Ben Jones]

On Wednesday, 14 June 2023 at 09:28:57 UTC, Cecil Ward wrote:
> I’m thinking that I might had to end up writing a partial, 
> rather rough parser for parts of the D language. Could I get 
> some suggestions for help that I might find in the way of 
> software components? D has a very powerful regex module, I 
> believe.

A couple of pointers for general parsers:

The Pegged library: 
https://github.com/PhilippeSigaud/Pegged/tree/master is pretty 
popular for building general parsers

I have a rough implementation a similar idea here: 
https://github.com/benjones/autoparsed (definitely less polished 
and probably buggier than pegged).  In mine you annotate your 
types with their syntax and can then call parse!MyType on a token 
stream to get a MyType.