Migrating dmd to D?

[Daniel Murphy]

"dennis luehring" <dl.soluz at gmx.net> wrote in message 
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> Am 12.03.2013 10:59, schrieb Daniel Murphy:
>> "dennis luehring" <dl.soluz at gmx.net> wrote in message
>> news:khmgep$1a6s$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>>
>>> looks not that bad - the big question for me is - do you think that this
>>> could be the way to do the port (or do you just "test" how far you can 
>>> get
>>> with automated conversion)
>>
>> This is the way.
>>
>> With automatic conversion, development can continue on the C++ frontend
>> until the D version is ready to become _the_ frontend.
>>
>> The C++ code needs a lot of cleanup.
>>
>
> maybe it will get near perfection :) and become an standard tool like htod
>

Unfortunately it only works because it can make a lot of assumptions about 
the dmd source, and the subset of C++ it uses.  The same approach can be 
used with other C++ projects, but not the same tool.