std.d.lexer : voting thread

[ilya-stromberg]

On Saturday, 5 October 2013 at 11:45:47 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2013-10-05 02:24, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>
>> Thanks all involved for the work, first of all Brian.
>>
>> I have the proverbial good news and bad news. The only bad 
>> news is that
>> I'm voting "no" on this proposal.
>>
>> [Snip]
>
> Is this something in the middle of a hand written lexer and a 
> lexer automatically generated?
>
> I think we can have both. A hand written lexer, specifically 
> targeted for D that is very fast. Then a more general lexer 
> that can be used for many languages.
>
> I have to say I think this is a bit unfair to dump this huge 
> thing in the voting thread. You haven't made a single post in 
> the discussion thread and now you're coming with this big 
> suggestions in the voting thread.

I asked the same question about support any grammar, not only D 
grammar, but Brian did not respond:
http://forum.dlang.org/post/itlyubosepuqcchhuwdh@forum.dlang.org