Official D Grammar

[H. S. Teoh]

On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 10:49:25PM +0200, Brian Schott wrote:
> Status update:
> 
> My parser is at a point where it can parse all of phobos (well,
> excluding c-style array declarations, which I'm convinced are broken
> and should be removed from the language).

Really? Those still exist in Phobos? Shouldn't they be rewritten to the
"native" style?


> I've been updating the grammar definition as I worked on the parser.
> An HTML version is available for download here:
> https://raw.github.com/Hackerpilot/DGrammar/master/grammar.html
> 
> Lexer, parser, and AST code is available here:
> https://github.com/Hackerpilot/Dscanner/tree/range-based-lexer/std/d.
> Bug reports and pull requests are welcome.

Wonderful! I'll have to look into this sometime. I've been dreaming
about writing a D pretty-printer, and this may be just the thing I need
to get it going.  :)

(Well actually, I *wrote* a D pretty-printer, but I only got as far as
lexing, with some token-matching rules for the pretty-printing. Needless
to say, the results were rather underwhelming, since I didn't have an
AST to work with.)


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