[spec] Phases of translation

[Paul Backus]

On Sunday, 19 May 2019 at 10:07:37 UTC, Dibyendu Majumdar wrote:
> I had a quick look at the D parsing code. It seems that 
> following an initial parse - presumably this constructs the 
> syntax tree - there are three deferred semantic parses. Are any 
> details available on what actually happens in each pass? I can 
> read the code of course but it would be helpful to get a high 
> level picture.
>
> Thanks and Regards
> Dibyendu

Walter Bright's DConf 2016 talk, "Spelunking D Compuler 
Internals", is a good resource for this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_96Crl998E