Complete D grammar

[Nick Sabalausky]

"David Nadlinger" <see at klickverbot.at> wrote in message 
news:imq92m$1ru0$1 at digitalmars.com...
> On 3/28/11 5:17 PM, Kagamin wrote:
>> Trass3r Wrote:
>>
>>> Didn't someone here have a complete D grammar? I vaguely remember that 
>>> there is at least a D1 one buried somewhere.
>>
>> huh?
>> http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D.announce&article_id=20299
>

Like Trass3r said, that's lexing-only right now.

> Nope, Trass3r is talking about a grammar for the D language itself, 
> whereas Goldie is a parser generator for D (which generates parsers for a 
> given grammar).
>

Technically speaking, Goldie doesn't actually generate parsers, it has one 
grammar-independent parser that it uses for all grammars (fairly 
characteristic for LALR(1), AIUI). Although, in the static-style it does 
make a slight custom modification to the parser and lexer so that each token 
emitted is properly typed. Which I suppose amounts to six-of-one, 
half-dozen-of-the-other...

> Unfortunately, I only remember someone working on one (and filing some 
> related bugs), I lost the details as well.
>

Yea, I remember that too. Someone took all the BNF sections from D's docs on 
digitalmars.com, put them together, and filled in some missing/erroneous 
parts. Maybe it's on wiki4d?