[dmd-internals] How important are the exact formats of __DATE__, __TIME__, and __TIMESTAMP___?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

I understand. If I could, I'd kindly discourage you from working on it. 
Its existence would stifle the impetus to work on general lexing and 
parsing frameworks (a la highly integrated lex/yacc using D's 
generational capabilities). Those in turn would push the compiler 
forward and would help fixing bugs, and would offer the proverbial 
fishing rod (tools for parsing any language) instead of fish (a lexer 
and a parser for D itself).

Andrei

On 3/8/11 8:41 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 March 2011 19:53:46 Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 3/8/11 7:36 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>>> Do they _have_ to be in a particular format? I ask because I've slowly
>>> been going through the lexer code, translating it to D for
>>> std.lang.d.lex
>>
>> What is std.lang.d.lex?
>
> It's the D lexer for Phobos that Walter wanted written. He wanted someone to
> port the compiler's C++ frontend's lexer to D. I volunteered to do it.
>
> http://lists.puremagic.com/pipermail/digitalmars-d/2010-October/085981.html
>
> I've slowly been working on it, but I'm a ways from being done.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis
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