dmd Lexer and Parser in D

[Armin Kazmi]

Well, I think, it might be easier to change the dmd implemention to use  
C only and then write language bindings to that. We all know the 
binding situation to C++ won't change sooner or later.

> "Daniel Murphy" <yebblies at nospamgmail.com> wrote in message
> news:jgj9mu$1q60$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> On a related note, how much interest is there around here in having 
an
>> official version of dmd written in D?
>>
> 
> I'm interested in a D *API* for taking in D sources and spitting out 
the
> user's choice of either the parser results, or an AST with all the
> semantics/CTFE/etc already run. I get the impressiona lot of people 
are
> intrested in this.
> 
> As far as the actual *implementation* behind the D interface, I don't
> particularly care if it's C, C++, or D.
> 
> I suspect having it D might be a pain until a lot more issues get
> resolved. A bootstrapping compiler, I would imagine, would need a 
much
> more stable base than other types of software would need (though I 
don't
> have any experience with bootstrapping compilers, so I could be 
wrong).