[spec] Phases of translation

[Dibyendu Majumdar]

On Monday, 20 May 2019 at 07:34:43 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> The Translation Phases are conceptual, the compiler may not 
> actually do them that way, it's just supposed to be "as if" 
> they were done that way.
>

Okay thank you. From the spec point of view I guess the important 
thing is to clarify any constraints this places on D. One 
constraint obviously is that the parsing into syntax tree 
requires arbitrary lookahead of tokens. Are there other 
constraints that need to be highlighted?

Regards