• Matthew Wilson (13/13) Apr 01 2003 I've been poking around in Burton's dstrip stuff, and I'm left in a bit ...
• Luna Kid (10/23) Apr 03 2003 a

"Matthew Wilson" <dmd synesis.com.au> writes:

I've been poking around in Burton's dstrip stuff, and I'm left in a bit of a
quandary. Whilst the stuff seems good, and I've no reason to doubt that it's
up-to-date with the latest version of D, it seems like the wrong approach.
What would be better, surely, is to have this as a built in part of the
compiler itself. I don't mean necessarily part of dmd.exe, but rather that
the stripper should be using the same lexing, tokenisation, etc.
subs-systems as the compiler. That way is the only way to guarantee that it
doesn't get out of step.

Also, having a D-library tool would be very useful. dlib.exe, or whatever,
would compile, link (to lib or DLL) and prepare a stripped version of source
from a specified set of source. I've not looked into the compiler source,
but I assume it would be reasonably easy to get borrow the requisite
functionality from it. (Of course I could be wrong ...)

"Luna Kid" <lunakid neuropolis.org> writes:

"Matthew Wilson" <dmd synesis.com.au> wrote in message
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 I've been poking around in Burton's dstrip stuff, and I'm left in a bit of

a
 quandary. Whilst the stuff seems good, and I've no reason to doubt that

it's
 up-to-date with the latest version of D, it seems like the wrong approach.
 What would be better, surely, is to have this as a built in part of the
 compiler itself. I don't mean necessarily part of dmd.exe, but rather that
 the stripper should be using the same lexing, tokenisation, etc.
 subs-systems as the compiler. That way is the only way to guarantee that

it
 doesn't get out of step.

 Also, having a D-library tool would be very useful. dlib.exe, or whatever,
 would compile, link (to lib or DLL) and prepare a stripped version of

source
 from a specified set of source. I've not looked into the compiler source,
 but I assume it would be reasonably easy to get borrow the requisite
 functionality from it. (Of course I could be wrong ...)


Definitely.

BTW, how does Eiffel manage this "short form" thing,
for an example? (I played with that too long ago.)

Luna Kid