DDMD and such.

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Gor Gyolchanyan" <gor.f.gyolchanyan at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:mailman.274.1317244949.26225.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
> I'd gladly help you with this. I'm very excited to have a parser in 
> Phobos!
>

I was actually thinking more just the lexer. I'd probably let someone else 
do the parser. My parsing experience is mostly limited to LALR, and to parse 
D it would take a fairly advanced LALR engine to do it properly. So LL may 
be better. Plus, DMD already uses LL.

Keep in mind, too, that even with both a lexer and parser, that still 
wouldn't get you very close to being able to actually compile D from within 
D (although you can kind of already do that: system("rdmd main.d"); ), 
because the lexing and parsing are the easy parts (relatively spaking). The 
hard part is all the post-parsing stuff: sematics, typesystem, CTFE, 
templates, etc.