Re: [CEDET-devel] Adding support for the D programming language

[Jonathan J. <jjo...@gm...>]

Thanks for the resource Joe, this should definitely make things
significantly easier.

Jon

On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Joe Doyle Ardent <
ced...@ar...> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 06:41:58PM +0200, David Engster wrote:
> >
> > - Things will become much easier if there's a free grammar for D out
> >   there, meaning that the license under which this grammar is
> >   distributed is compatible with the GPL. A first step would then be to
> >   port that Grammar to Wisent or Bovine, which are ports of Bison in
> >   Emacs Lisp. Otherwise, you would have to start a grammar from scratch,
> >   or maybe - if it makes sense - start with the existing grammar for
> >   C++ and adapt it for D.
> >
>
>         One of the design goals of D is easy parsability (it's not
> ambiguous).  Check out these scripts for extracting the grammar from the
> source:
>
> http://www.dsource.org/projects/visuald/browser/grammar
>
> (from this discussion:
>
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/EBNF_grammar_for_D_160834.html
> )
>
>
> -Joe
>
>
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