dmd support for IDEs and the D tool chain

[Justin Johansson]

Nick Sabalausky Wrote:

> "Ellery Newcomer" <ellery-newcomer at utulsa.edu> wrote in message 
> news:hbak0n$q5b$1 at digitalmars.com...
> > 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 :)
> 
> Yea, like I said, "FWIW" ;)
> 
> >
> > 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.
> 
> Beats me, I'm not nearly as up on parsing theory as I'd like to be. Could 
> you give me a simple example? 

There are a zillion tutorials relating to parsing on the web.

Try googling:

parsing theory tutorial

2nd hit: An introduction to parsing

Cheers
Justin Johansson