D Compiler as a Library

[deadalnix]

Le 13/04/2012 22:31, Trass3r a écrit :
>> I think we've got the lexer and parser completely separate from
>> most of the rest of the codebase (like the codegen), due to
>> repeated requests from people who wanted to use these parts for
>> IDEs and other tools.
>
> Still some things to learn from Clang though.
> e.g. it still directly builds an AST instead of using some kind of
> interface.
>

I'm very interested in what you mean here. Do you have a link or can you 
write an explaination ?

> btw, why do you use exceptions for compiler errors instead of a cheaper
> and more sophisticated system?
>

Currently it is exception only, but this is a known issue.