std.d.lexer : voting thread

[Volcz]

On Thursday, 10 October 2013 at 04:33:15 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, October 02, 2013 16:41:54 Dicebot wrote:
>> After brief discussion with Brian and gathering data from the
>> review thread, I have decided to start voting for `std.d.lexer`
>> inclusion into Phobos.
>
> I'm going to have to vote no.
>
> While Brian has done some great work, I think that it's clear 
> from the
> discussion that there are still some potential issues (e.g. 
> requiring a string
> table) that need further discussion and possibly API changes. 
> Also, while I
> question that a generated lexer can beat a hand-written one, I 
> think that we
> really should look at what Andrei's proposing and look at 
> adjusting whan Brian
> has done accordingly - or at least do enough so that we can 
> benchmark the two
> approaches. As such, accepting the lexer right now doesn't 
> really make sense.
>
> However, we may want to make it so that the lexer is in some 
> place of
> prominence (outside of Phobos - probably on dub but mentioned 
> somewhere on
> dlang.org) as an _experimental_ module which is clearly marked 
> as not finalized
> but which is ready for people to use and bang on. That way, we 
> may be able to
> get some better feedback generated from more real world use.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

Vote: No.
Same reason as Jonathan above.