A gentle critque..

[Walter Bright]

Ben Cooley wrote:
> Elsa seems to do a pretty good job for us.. and we've got some pretty
> complicated template usage.  But you really need little more than the sort of
> parser used to create documentation, or to view the class hierarchy.  You don't
> need to parse any actual code, just definitions.  Swig is a good example.

I've never heard of Elsa, but I bet I can break it <g>.

> As for the preprocessor, all C compilers come with their own already, so that's
> really not a major problem.  A D pass to extract macros first, then a
> preprocessing pass by the real Cpp compiler, then a declaration parsing pass.

That might work, but it's quite a lashup.