Looking for champion - std.lang.d.lex

[Walter Bright]

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> I don't see these two in tension. "General" does not need entail 
> "unsuitable for subtle particularities". It is more difficult, but not 
> impossible. Again, a general parser that takes care of the 90% of the 
> drudgework and gives enough hooks to do the remaining 10%, all as 
> efficient as hand-written code.


In general I agree with you, but that is a major project to do that and make it 
general, efficient, and easy to use - and then, one has to make a D lexer out of 
it. In the meantime, we have a lexer for D that would be straightforward to 
adapt to be a D library module. The only decisions that have to be made is what 
the API to it will be.