dmdz

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 03/18/2010 11:48 AM, Ellery Newcomer wrote:
> On 03/18/2010 11:36 AM, Robert Clipsham wrote:
>> On 18/03/10 16:28, Ellery Newcomer wrote:
>>> I still don't see why (other than lexd.g adds ~ 10k loc just to get the
>>> line 'module foo.bar;' out of a source file)
>>
>> That seems like a tad too much for it... Surely it would only take a few
>> (here meaning far less than 10k) lines to parse away comments/whitespace
>> at the start of the file then read the module declaration if there is
>> one?
>
> Sure. I could write it in 100 loc. My concern is they would be a buggy
> 100 loc that would take a good deal of effort to get right. lexd.g
> already existed and has been pretty heavily tested.

You could write it in 5 loc.

Andrei