dmd support for IDEs and the D tool chain

[Ellery Newcomer]

Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Denis Koroskin" <2korden at gmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:op.u1v7jdgco7cclz at korden-pc...
>> Yes, it's a DMD port. Unfortunately, there is no other mature D front-end 
>> at present. Other folks are working on D compilers (dil, dang, ...) but 
>> the progress is very slow.
> 
> FWIW, I've been meaning to try to write a D grammar for GOLD when I get a 
> chance (the Haxe grammar I wrote only took a few days). If that pans out 
> (depends just how simple and unambiguous the grammar is), then that could be 
> used with Goldie as a starting point (ie, lex/parse would be taken care of. 
> Semantic analysis, optimization and back-end would need to be added in). 
> 
> 
All but the hard parts :)

I could count the number of places that are ambiguous syntactically or
semantically on one hand, and maybe the number of places that require
arbitrary lookahead also. Do LALR parsers care about arbitrary
lookahead? LL(k) parsers do.