Time to invent a different file format to hold meta data info

[Unknown W. Brackets]

Does that mean I should be holding my breath for a -DIDE switch to 
launch an IDE that gets the syntax highlighting right?  Heh.

Seriously, I do agree that was a smart choice.  I wish its output were a 
bit more semantic, but things like that can be fixed.  Having correct 
parsing is priceless, and it's a very logical part of the build process.

-[Unknown]


Walter Bright wrote:
> Unknown W. Brackets wrote:
>> Of course, I'm sure a better API could be devised.  This sort of 
>> format, if properly standardized, could be used to make IDEs much more 
>> efficient.  It would also allow for much better and more accurate 
>> error reporting, and the compiler could be loaded as a shared object 
>> so that initialization cost would be low.
>>
>> Most language services for Visual Studio are essentially a large part 
>> of the compiler (often reimplemented in C# or some such) without the 
>> code generation.  It seems like such a silly and obvious waste to me.
> 
> That's why Ddoc is part of the compiler, so it can get the syntax 
> highlighting right.