interest in Static Analysis for D ?

[Stefan Koch via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 16 November 2016 at 10:45:54 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> On 11/15/2016 07:05 PM, Stefan Koch wrote:
>>> [...]
>> 
>> It's a compiler frontend.
>
> Very good observation :P
>
>> I cannot see any other purposes then code-analysis and 
>> code-transformation. Regarding Transformations I wanted to 
>> write a good D transformation tool for years now.
>
> With that approach you can also say that code analysis is 
> subset of code of code transformation (it transforms code to 
> list of warnings!) and thus that is the only purpose. I doubt 
> it is very useful definition :)
>
> Language frontend as a library must allow any sort of reasoning 
> about source code that compiler can normally do. What library 
> user will do with that reasoning is not of ones concern - it 
> can be analysis or transpilation to another language or even 
> dumb AST pretty-printing. No matter, in the core one has to be 
> able to do `import dlang.frontend` and write own visiting code.

Point taken.
My plan does not include to change the modular structure of the 
frontend.
It's more focused on improving perforance and ease-of-use of the 
AST and AST-Visitors.