std.d.lexer : voting thread

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 10/7/13 9:21 PM, Jakob Ovrum wrote:
> On Tuesday, 8 October 2013 at 00:16:45 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> http://dpaste.dzfl.pl/d07dd46d
>
> I have to say, that `generateCases` function is rather disgusting. I'm
> really worried about the trend of using string mixins when not
> necessary, for no apparent gain. Surely you could have used static
> foreach to generate those cases instead, allowing code that is actually
> readable. It would probably have much better compile-time performance as
> well, but that's just speculation.

This is the first shot, and I'm more interested in the API with the 
implementation to be improved. Your idea sounds great - care to put it 
in code so we see how it does?

Andrei