Migrating D front end to D - post Dconf

[Daniel Murphy]

"Iain Buclaw" <ibuclaw at ubuntu.com> wrote in message 
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>
> Actually, the more I sit down and think about it, the more I question
> whether or not it is a good idea for the D D front end to have a 
> dependency
> on phobos.   Maybe I should stop thinking in general.  :)
>

Yeah, the compiler can't depend on phobos.  But if we really need to, we can 
clone a chunk of phobos and add it to the compiler.  Just so long as there 
isn't a loop.  BigInt is a pretty good candidate.