DDMD and such.

[Gor Gyolchanyan]

Agreed. But it would be splendid to have such a thing in Phobos!
I'm an expert on curious perversions, and this is a marvelous example of one.
being able to compile and run code at run-time will allow to easily
wrote heuristically reflective algorithms.

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 1:57 AM, Nick Sabalausky <a at a.a> wrote:
> "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.
>
>
>