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reply Trass3r <un known.com> writes:
Didn't someone here have a complete D grammar? I vaguely remember that there is
at least a D1 one buried somewhere.
Mar 28 2011
next sibling parent reply Kagamin <spam here.lot> writes:
Trass3r Wrote:


 Didn't someone here have a complete D grammar? I vaguely remember that there
is at least a D1 one buried somewhere.



huh?
http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D.announce&article_id=20299
Mar 28 2011
next sibling parent reply David Nadlinger <see klickverbot.at> writes:
On 3/28/11 5:17 PM, Kagamin wrote:

 Trass3r Wrote:


 Didn't someone here have a complete D grammar? I vaguely remember that there
is at least a D1 one buried somewhere.



 huh?
 http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D.announce&article_id=20299



Nope, Trass3r is talking about a grammar for the D language itself, 
whereas Goldie is a parser generator for D (which generates parsers for 
a given grammar).

Unfortunately, I only remember someone working on one (and filing some 
related bugs), I lost the details as well…

David
Mar 28 2011
next sibling parent reply Trass3r <un known.com> writes:
David Nadlinger Wrote:

 Nope, Trass3r is talking about a grammar for the D language itself, 



Exactly, I'm pretty sure that some guy once stated on IRC or somewhere he had a
complete D1 grammar.
Mar 28 2011
parent reply Bruno Medeiros <brunodomedeiros+spam com.gmail> writes:
On 28/03/2011 18:19, Luca Boasso wrote:

 You can find an ANTLR grammar for D v1 at
 http://www.dsource.org/projects/antlrd/browser/toys/v3d/parsed.g (by
 Ellery Newcomer)

 The syntax is similar to EBNF, check the ANTLR documentation for details.

 I hope this might help you.


 Luca Boasso



Indeed, Ellery is (AFAIK) the only one who has worked on ANLTR-based D 
parser recently and possibly got any significant work done in that. It's 
definitely worth looking at his work and see if anything can be reused. 
However, according to his most recent message on the subject:

"
Been pretty busy this semester, so I haven't been doing much.

But the bottom line is, yes I have working antlr grammars for D1 and D2
if you don't mind
1) they're slow
2) they're tied to a hacked-out version of the netbeans fork of ANTLR2
3) they're tied to some custom java code
4) I haven't been keeping the tree grammars so up to date
"
http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D&article_id=122803

...it may not provide much of head-start.

-- 
Bruno Medeiros - Software Engineer
Mar 29 2011
parent reply Ellery Newcomer <ellery-newcomer utulsa.edu> writes:
On 03/29/2011 07:53 AM, Bruno Medeiros wrote:

 On 28/03/2011 18:19, Luca Boasso wrote:

 You can find an ANTLR grammar for D v1 at
 http://www.dsource.org/projects/antlrd/browser/toys/v3d/parsed.g (by
 Ellery Newcomer)






I never should have uploaded that file.


 Indeed, Ellery is (AFAIK) the only one who has worked on ANLTR-based D
 parser recently and possibly got any significant work done in that. It's
 definitely worth looking at his work and see if anything can be reused.
 However, according to his most recent message on the subject:


 ...it may not provide much of head-start.



Been working on them for 3 years now. I should hope it would.

As it is, I think I'm done with D and I probably won't be continuing 
that project, so if anyone wants to do anything further with it, they're 
welcome to it.

https://bitbucket.org/ariovistus/d-jvm-cc

I also have some netbeans plugin code somewhere. If memory serves, it 
can do syntax highlighting. If anyone wants it.
Apr 06 2011
parent Bruno Medeiros <brunodomedeiros+spam com.gmail> writes:
On 06/04/2011 19:05, Ellery Newcomer wrote:

 On 03/29/2011 07:53 AM, Bruno Medeiros wrote:

 On 28/03/2011 18:19, Luca Boasso wrote:

 You can find an ANTLR grammar for D v1 at
 http://www.dsource.org/projects/antlrd/browser/toys/v3d/parsed.g (by
 Ellery Newcomer)






 I never should have uploaded that file.


 Indeed, Ellery is (AFAIK) the only one who has worked on ANLTR-based D
 parser recently and possibly got any significant work done in that. It's
 definitely worth looking at his work and see if anything can be reused.
 However, according to his most recent message on the subject:


 ...it may not provide much of head-start.



 Been working on them for 3 years now. I should hope it would.

 As it is, I think I'm done with D and I probably won't be continuing
 that project, so if anyone wants to do anything further with it, they're
 welcome to it.

 https://bitbucket.org/ariovistus/d-jvm-cc

 I also have some netbeans plugin code somewhere. If memory serves, it
 can do syntax highlighting. If anyone wants it.



Thanks, it's worth taking a look for sure.
BTW, what is that Netbeans fork of antlr2, why was it created? I tried 
googling but couldn't find any info quickly.


-- 
Bruno Medeiros - Software Engineer
Apr 13 2011
prev sibling next sibling parent reply Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
On 3/28/2011 9:02 AM, Luca Boasso wrote:

 A complete D grammar is one of the objectives of my GSOC 2011 ANTLR
 proposal, if I got accepted you will have one :)



The complete grammar should be part of the D spec. Please post any errors/fixes 
to the existing one to bugzilla!
Mar 28 2011
parent reply Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario gmx.de> writes:
Having written a D2 parser a few month ago in the hope it will be 
helpful to Visual D (just finds it way into the plugin right now), I've 
noticed quite some inaccuracies in the "official" grammar on the 
website. Some of these are probably already in bugzilla, some of them 
might be personal taste and should be discussed, though.

I've set up a comparison with some notes here:

http://www.dsource.org/projects/visuald/wiki/GrammarComparison

The parser was written manually, so the proposed grammar was not 
directly used to generate the parser and might still contain errors.

I've extracted the website grammar using some combination of scripts 
from the ddoc sources, so if there is interest, I can dig them up...

Rainer

Walter Bright wrote:

 On 3/28/2011 9:02 AM, Luca Boasso wrote:

 A complete D grammar is one of the objectives of my GSOC 2011 ANTLR
 proposal, if I got accepted you will have one :)



 The complete grammar should be part of the D spec. Please post any 
 errors/fixes to the existing one to bugzilla!
Mar 28 2011
next sibling parent reply Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
On 3/28/2011 11:46 PM, Rainer Schuetze wrote:

 Having written a D2 parser a few month ago in the hope it will be helpful to
 Visual D (just finds it way into the plugin right now), I've noticed quite some
 inaccuracies in the "official" grammar on the website. Some of these are
 probably already in bugzilla, some of them might be personal taste and should
be
 discussed, though.

 I've set up a comparison with some notes here:

 http://www.dsource.org/projects/visuald/wiki/GrammarComparison

 The parser was written manually, so the proposed grammar was not directly used
 to generate the parser and might still contain errors.

 I've extracted the website grammar using some combination of scripts from the
 ddoc sources, so if there is interest, I can dig them up...




I thought I fixed the grammar issues listed in Bugzilla.

Could you please add a bugzilla entry for your wiki notes?
Mar 29 2011
parent reply Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario gmx.de> writes:
Walter Bright wrote:

 On 3/28/2011 11:46 PM, Rainer Schuetze wrote:

 I've set up a comparison with some notes here:

 http://www.dsource.org/projects/visuald/wiki/GrammarComparison



 
 I thought I fixed the grammar issues listed in Bugzilla.



The comparison is from the time I wrote the parser, so it is a few month 
old. Checking the latest docs, there are already quite a number of 
issues fixed, but also some new have crept in.

I'll redo the comparison with the latest extracted grammar...


 
 Could you please add a bugzilla entry for your wiki notes?



I hope you mean an entry with a link to the wiki. The comparison itself 
might a bit too large itself for bugzilla (html is larger than 800kB) ;-)
Mar 29 2011
parent reply Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
On 3/29/2011 2:48 PM, Rainer Schuetze wrote:

 Could you please add a bugzilla entry for your wiki notes?



 I hope you mean an entry with a link to the wiki. The comparison itself might a
 bit too large itself for bugzilla (html is larger than 800kB) ;-)



A link is fine.
Mar 30 2011
parent Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario gmx.de> writes:
Walter Bright wrote:

 On 3/29/2011 2:48 PM, Rainer Schuetze wrote:

 Could you please add a bugzilla entry for your wiki notes?



 I hope you mean an entry with a link to the wiki. The comparison 
 itself might a
 bit too large itself for bugzilla (html is larger than 800kB) ;-)



 A link is fine.



Done now: http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5803

An update of the chart involves a lot of manual editing to keep 
comments, but the size of the tables makes every editor so slow, it is 
really painful. So I'm not sure I'll find the time to update it soon, I 
think I need an alternative way to do it first.
Mar 30 2011
prev sibling next sibling parent reply Trass3r <un known.com> writes:
Rainer Schuetze wrote:

 I've extracted the website grammar using some combination of scripts 
 from the ddoc sources, so if there is interest, I can dig them up...



Yep, please make them publicly available so they don't get lost.
Though I think we should have an extra official page with the complete grammar
in addition to the widespread snippets anyway.
Mar 29 2011
next sibling parent Trass3r <un known.com> writes:
spir Wrote:

 Sure, and this grammar should be the actual startpoint of actual parsers, so 
 that we know it's correct ;-) (else, it's just some more blowing in the wind)



Exactly!
Mar 29 2011
prev sibling parent Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario gmx.de> writes:
Trass3r wrote:

 Rainer Schuetze wrote:

 I've extracted the website grammar using some combination of scripts 
 from the ddoc sources, so if there is interest, I can dig them up...



 Yep, please make them publicly available so they don't get lost.
 Though I think we should have an extra official page with the complete grammar
in addition to the widespread snippets anyway.



I've uploaded the script and the grammar used for the comparison (a few 
month old) and the grammar from the current doc sources to

http://www.dsource.org/projects/visuald/browser/grammar

See the header of gen_grammar.sh for a very short description what to do 
to run the generation.
Mar 29 2011
prev sibling next sibling parent reply Trass3r <un known.com> writes:
Rainer Schuetze Wrote:

 I've set up a comparison with some notes here:
 
 http://www.dsource.org/projects/visuald/wiki/GrammarComparison



Very nice comparison style.
What would be an appropriate way to discuss grammar changes?
I think many things should be simplified/clarified.

For example, isn't AutoDeclaration already covered by Decl -> StorageClasses
Decl and so on?
Also there are 3 different instances of mixin: MixinExpression, MixinStatement
and MixinDeclaration. Even though they all come down to the same thing.
Modifiers like shared are repeated, e.g. in BasicType, Attribute,
TypeSpecialization. Also your proposed TypeWithModifier somewhat replicates
parts of BasicType (just without the parentheses)
Mar 29 2011
parent reply Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario gmx.de> writes:
Trass3r wrote:

 Rainer Schuetze Wrote:

 I've set up a comparison with some notes here:

 http://www.dsource.org/projects/visuald/wiki/GrammarComparison



 Very nice comparison style.
 What would be an appropriate way to discuss grammar changes?
 I think many things should be simplified/clarified.



I'd welcome this. I see a few options, but none is currently perfect:

- in a wiki. both dsource and wiki4d don't seem to have discussion 
pages, though. I'm not sure the comparison tables can be converted to 
something maintainable - it's currently very verbose html.
- here on the newsgroup. this would probably have the widest audience, 
but also might easily get lost. maybe with keeping track of 
ideas/results in wiki4d.
- in bugzilla. this might get spread into multiple entries causing loss 
of the overview of the overall grammar.


 
 For example, isn't AutoDeclaration already covered by Decl -> StorageClasses
Decl and so on?
 Also there are 3 different instances of mixin: MixinExpression, MixinStatement
and MixinDeclaration. Even though they all come down to the same thing.
 Modifiers like shared are repeated, e.g. in BasicType, Attribute,
TypeSpecialization. Also your proposed TypeWithModifier somewhat replicates
parts of BasicType (just without the parentheses) 



I think, the different mixin variants are ok, because you might want to 
generate different AST for these. But the confusion of 
const/shared/immutable etc in Attribute,StorageClass,Types,etc causes a 
lot of headaches.
Mar 29 2011
parent Trass3r <un known.com> writes:
I just forked the d-programming-language.org repo on github to fix some grammar
errors as a start.
I think results should directly go into such a fork so a pull request can be
issued later and everything might be merged in at once.

Will open a new thread for it.
Mar 30 2011
prev sibling parent reply Bruno Medeiros <brunodomedeiros+spam com.gmail> writes:
On 29/03/2011 07:46, Rainer Schuetze wrote:

 Having written a D2 parser a few month ago in the hope it will be
 helpful to Visual D (just finds it way into the plugin right now), I've
 noticed quite some inaccuracies in the "official" grammar on the
 website. Some of these are probably already in bugzilla, some of them
 might be personal taste and should be discussed, though.

 I've set up a comparison with some notes here:

 http://www.dsource.org/projects/visuald/wiki/GrammarComparison

 The parser was written manually, so the proposed grammar was not
 directly used to generate the parser and might still contain errors.

 I've extracted the website grammar using some combination of scripts
 from the ddoc sources, so if there is interest, I can dig them up...

 Rainer



BTW, I wanna thank for this work (current and upcoming), it is likely 
useful for other IDE projects as well ;)


-- 
Bruno Medeiros - Software Engineer
Apr 04 2011
next sibling parent Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:
On 4/4/11 1:51 PM, Aleksandar Ružičić wrote:

 On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 8:11 PM, Bruno Medeiros
 <brunodomedeiros+spam com.gmail>  wrote:

 BTW, I wanna thank for this work (current and upcoming), it is likely useful
 for other IDE projects as well ;)



 Ditto.

 I have started work on D language support for NetBeans (IMHO it's MUCH
 better editor than Eclipse) and started to write grammar for javaCC,
 but since there is ongoing work on ANTLR parser I'll wait for that to
 be done and integrate it into plugin I'm working on. :)



Aleksandar, would you be willing to work with the student working on 
ANTLR as a mentor? Please let me know and I'll send details about 
applying as a mentor.

Andrei
Apr 04 2011
prev sibling parent reply Bruno Medeiros <brunodomedeiros+spam com.gmail> writes:
On 04/04/2011 20:19, Aleksandar Ružičić wrote:

 On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 9:05 PM, Steven Schveighoffer
 <schveiguy yahoo.com>  wrote:

  On Mon, 04 Apr 2011 14:51:02 -0400, Aleksandar Ružičić
  <ruzicic.aleksandar gmail.com>  wrote:


  On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 8:11 PM, Bruno Medeiros
  <brunodomedeiros+spam com.gmail>  wrote:

  BTW, I wanna thank for this work (current and upcoming), it is likely
  useful
  for other IDE projects as well ;)






  Ditto.

  I have started work on D language support for NetBeans (IMHO it's MUCH
  better editor than Eclipse) and started to write grammar for javaCC,
  but since there is ongoing work on ANTLR parser I'll wait for that to
  be done and integrate it into plugin I'm working on. :)






  I would absolutely love NetBeans support for D.

  -Steve









On my side I'm surprised NetBeans hasn't faded into obscurity, but I 
haven't tried it for a long, long time, so this isn't really an informed 
opinion.

So why is NetBeans much better editor than Eclipse? (I'm not just 
looking for a discussion, I'm curious about these issues as it might be 
something that can be taken into consideration for DDT development)



 Me too, so when I realized that no such project exists I've decided to
 write it my self (after all I write Java for few year now so I feel
 comfortable with it) but I knew that writing parser will take me most
 time and effort so it's great to see someone decided to write
 parser/grammar for ANTLR which can be used by other projects (in that
 way few IDEs could share same parser and focus on other parts of an
 IDE).



You can get started right away, no? The Descent parser has been isolated 
into its own bundle, which has no dependencies on Eclipse code or other 
third-party libraries (other than perhaps some assertion code, but all 
superficial dependencies that can be easily replaced).

The DDT DTool bundle 
(http://code.google.com/a/eclipselabs.org/p/ddt/source/browse/#hg%2Forg
dsource.ddt.dtool), 
which adds its own AST and semantic functionality like find-ref, code 
completion, etc., is also designed to be independent of Eclipse code, so 
you could use that as well, integrate it to NetBeans. In practice there 
is a non-trivial dependency here, but I plan to remove it soon, hopefully.


-- 
Bruno Medeiros - Software Engineer
Apr 20 2011
parent Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:
On 2011-04-20 17:32, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:

 My biggest pet-peeve with netbeans is when I want to change a value to a
 string literal, I highlight what I want to change, then type a quote to
 start typing the literal, the freaking thing instead just puts quotes
 around the highlighted text (which means I now have to re-highlight the
 text and press delete first). I've never once *used* this feature, but
 it gets in my way all the time (anyone know how to disable that?).

 -Steve



I use that feature all the time in other text editors.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg
Apr 20 2011
prev sibling parent reply "Nick Sabalausky" <a a.a> writes:
"David Nadlinger" <see klickverbot.at> wrote in message 
news:imq92m$1ru0$1 digitalmars.com...

 On 3/28/11 5:17 PM, Kagamin wrote:

 Trass3r Wrote:


 Didn't someone here have a complete D grammar? I vaguely remember that 
 there is at least a D1 one buried somewhere.



 huh?
 http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D.announce&article_id=20299






Like Trass3r said, that's lexing-only right now.


 Nope, Trass3r is talking about a grammar for the D language itself, 
 whereas Goldie is a parser generator for D (which generates parsers for a 
 given grammar).



Technically speaking, Goldie doesn't actually generate parsers, it has one 
grammar-independent parser that it uses for all grammars (fairly 
characteristic for LALR(1), AIUI). Although, in the static-style it does 
make a slight custom modification to the parser and lexer so that each token 
emitted is properly typed. Which I suppose amounts to six-of-one, 
half-dozen-of-the-other...


 Unfortunately, I only remember someone working on one (and filing some 
 related bugs), I lost the details as well.



Yea, I remember that too. Someone took all the BNF sections from D's docs on 
digitalmars.com, put them together, and filled in some missing/erroneous 
parts. Maybe it's on wiki4d?
Mar 28 2011
parent Lutger Blijdestijn <lutger.blijdestijn gmail.com> writes:
Nick Sabalausky wrote:
...

 
 Yea, I remember that too. Someone took all the BNF sections from D's docs
 on digitalmars.com, put them together, and filled in some
 missing/erroneous parts. Maybe it's on wiki4d?



Not sure if this is what you meant, but Jascha Wetzel had made a D grammar 
used by seatd / APaGeD: http://seatd.mainia.de/grammar.html
Mar 29 2011
prev sibling next sibling parent Luca Boasso <luke.boasso gmail.com> writes:
A complete D grammar is one of the objectives of my GSOC 2011 ANTLR
proposal, if I got accepted you will have one :)

On 3/28/11, David Nadlinger <see klickverbot.at> wrote:

 On 3/28/11 5:17 PM, Kagamin wrote:

 Trass3r Wrote:


 Didn't someone here have a complete D grammar? I vaguely remember that
 there is at least a D1 one buried somewhere.



 huh?
 http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=3Ddigitalmar=







 Nope, Trass3r is talking about a grammar for the D language itself,
 whereas Goldie is a parser generator for D (which generates parsers for
 a given grammar).

 Unfortunately, I only remember someone working on one (and filing some
 related bugs), I lost the details as well=85

 David
Mar 28 2011
prev sibling next sibling parent Trass3r <un known.com> writes:
 huh?
 http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D.announce&article_id=20299



The grammar offered there is lexing-only.
Mar 28 2011
prev sibling next sibling parent Luca Boasso <luke.boasso gmail.com> writes:
You can find an ANTLR grammar for D v1 at
http://www.dsource.org/projects/antlrd/browser/toys/v3d/parsed.g (by
Ellery Newcomer)

The syntax is similar to EBNF, check the ANTLR documentation for details.

I hope this might help you.


Luca Boasso

On 3/28/11, Trass3r <un known.com> wrote:

 David Nadlinger Wrote:

 Nope, Trass3r is talking about a grammar for the D language itself,



 Exactly, I'm pretty sure that some guy once stated on IRC or somewhere he
 had a complete D1 grammar.
Mar 28 2011
prev sibling next sibling parent Luca Boasso <luke.boasso gmail.com> writes:
On 3/28/11, Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> wrote:

 On 3/28/2011 9:02 AM, Luca Boasso wrote:

 A complete D grammar is one of the objectives of my GSOC 2011 ANTLR
 proposal, if I got accepted you will have one :)



 The complete grammar should be part of the D spec. Please post any
 errors/fixes
 to the existing one to bugzilla!



Sorry for the inaccuracy, I meant a complete grammar up-to-date with
the current D spec. that can be used by the ANTLR parser generator.
Mar 28 2011
prev sibling next sibling parent Jason <j.e.aten gmail.com> writes:
On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 09:02:45 -0700, Luca Boasso wrote:


 A complete D grammar is one of the objectives of my GSOC 2011 ANTLR
 proposal, if I got accepted you will have one :)



Luca -

You might want to be aware that it appears that the dmd2 front end uses 
Pratt parsing rather than being based on EBNF.  That being the case, it 
might be much easier (not to say more useful) to specify the language 
semantics in a more compatible format than EBNF.  If you've had sophmore 
level CS theory, then Pratt's original paper is very readable, and highly 
recommended.

Best,
Jason

http://hall.org.ua/halls/wizzard/pdf/Vaughan.Pratt.TDOP.pdf

;;;         Pratt, Vaughan R., ``Top Down Operator Precedence,''
;;;         ACM Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages
;;;         Boston, MA; October, 1973.
Apr 03 2011
prev sibling next sibling parent =?UTF-8?B?QWxla3NhbmRhciBSdcW+acSNacSH?= <ruzicic.aleksandar gmail.com> writes:
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 8:11 PM, Bruno Medeiros
<brunodomedeiros+spam com.gmail> wrote:

 BTW, I wanna thank for this work (current and upcoming), it is likely useful
 for other IDE projects as well ;)



Ditto.

I have started work on D language support for NetBeans (IMHO it's MUCH
better editor than Eclipse) and started to write grammar for javaCC,
but since there is ongoing work on ANTLR parser I'll wait for that to
be done and integrate it into plugin I'm working on. :)
Apr 04 2011
prev sibling next sibling parent "Steven Schveighoffer" <schveiguy yahoo.com> writes:
On Mon, 04 Apr 2011 14:51:02 -0400, Aleksandar Ružičić  
<ruzicic.aleksandar gmail.com> wrote:


 On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 8:11 PM, Bruno Medeiros
 <brunodomedeiros+spam com.gmail> wrote:

 BTW, I wanna thank for this work (current and upcoming), it is likely  
 useful
 for other IDE projects as well ;)



 Ditto.

 I have started work on D language support for NetBeans (IMHO it's MUCH
 better editor than Eclipse) and started to write grammar for javaCC,
 but since there is ongoing work on ANTLR parser I'll wait for that to
 be done and integrate it into plugin I'm working on. :)



I would absolutely love NetBeans support for D.

-Steve
Apr 04 2011
prev sibling next sibling parent =?UTF-8?B?QWxla3NhbmRhciBSdcW+acSNacSH?= <ruzicic.aleksandar gmail.com> writes:
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 9:05 PM, Steven Schveighoffer
<schveiguy yahoo.com> wrote:

 On Mon, 04 Apr 2011 14:51:02 -0400, Aleksandar Ru=C5=BEi=C4=8Di=C4=87
 <ruzicic.aleksandar gmail.com> wrote:


 On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 8:11 PM, Bruno Medeiros
 <brunodomedeiros+spam com.gmail> wrote:

 BTW, I wanna thank for this work (current and upcoming), it is likely
 useful
 for other IDE projects as well ;)



 Ditto.

 I have started work on D language support for NetBeans (IMHO it's MUCH
 better editor than Eclipse) and started to write grammar for javaCC,
 but since there is ongoing work on ANTLR parser I'll wait for that to
 be done and integrate it into plugin I'm working on. :)



 I would absolutely love NetBeans support for D.

 -Steve



Me too, so when I realized that no such project exists I've decided to
write it my self (after all I write Java for few year now so I feel
comfortable with it) but I knew that writing parser will take me most
time and effort so it's great to see someone decided to write
parser/grammar for ANTLR which can be used by other projects (in that
way few IDEs could share same parser and focus on other parts of an
IDE).
Apr 04 2011
prev sibling next sibling parent =?UTF-8?B?QWxla3NhbmRhciBSdcW+acSNacSH?= <ruzicic.aleksandar gmail.com> writes:
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 8:58 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu
<SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> wrote:

 Aleksandar, would you be willing to work with the student working on ANTLR
 as a mentor? Please let me know and I'll send details about applying as a
 mentor.



Well, I'm also a student :)
So I'm not sure if I really can be a mentor (23yrs old), and I have
never worked with ANTLR before but language theory (grammars, parsers
and all that stuff) was always my favorite subject so I know a bit
about all that.

I'm willing to help in any way I can..
Apr 04 2011
prev sibling next sibling parent Luca Boasso <luke.boasso gmail.com> writes:
Great! It can be a good start for my Google Summer of Code Proposal
[ANTLR and Java based D parser for IDE usage].
I was looking for this code

Thank you

On 4/6/11, Ellery Newcomer <ellery-newcomer utulsa.edu> wrote:

 On 03/29/2011 07:53 AM, Bruno Medeiros wrote:

 On 28/03/2011 18:19, Luca Boasso wrote:

 You can find an ANTLR grammar for D v1 at
 http://www.dsource.org/projects/antlrd/browser/toys/v3d/parsed.g (by
 Ellery Newcomer)






 I never should have uploaded that file.


 Indeed, Ellery is (AFAIK) the only one who has worked on ANLTR-based D
 parser recently and possibly got any significant work done in that. It's
 definitely worth looking at his work and see if anything can be reused.
 However, according to his most recent message on the subject:


 ...it may not provide much of head-start.



 Been working on them for 3 years now. I should hope it would.

 As it is, I think I'm done with D and I probably won't be continuing
 that project, so if anyone wants to do anything further with it, they're
 welcome to it.

 https://bitbucket.org/ariovistus/d-jvm-cc

 I also have some netbeans plugin code somewhere. If memory serves, it
 can do syntax highlighting. If anyone wants it.
Apr 06 2011
prev sibling parent "Steven Schveighoffer" <schveiguy yahoo.com> writes:
On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:40:22 -0400, Bruno Medeiros  
<brunodomedeiros+spam com.gmail> wrote:


 On 04/04/2011 20:19, Aleksandar Ružičić wrote:

 On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 9:05 PM, Steven Schveighoffer
 <schveiguy yahoo.com>  wrote:

  On Mon, 04 Apr 2011 14:51:02 -0400, Aleksandar Ružičić
  <ruzicic.aleksandar gmail.com>  wrote:


  On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 8:11 PM, Bruno Medeiros
  <brunodomedeiros+spam com.gmail>  wrote:

  BTW, I wanna thank for this work (current and upcoming), it is  










  useful
  for other IDE projects as well ;)






  Ditto.

  I have started work on D language support for NetBeans (IMHO it's  







  better editor than Eclipse) and started to write grammar for  







  but since there is ongoing work on ANTLR parser I'll wait for  







  be done and integrate it into plugin I'm working on. :)






  I would absolutely love NetBeans support for D.

  -Steve









 On my side I'm surprised NetBeans hasn't faded into obscurity, but I  
 haven't tried it for a long, long time, so this isn't really an informed  
 opinion.

 So why is NetBeans much better editor than Eclipse? (I'm not just  
 looking for a discussion, I'm curious about these issues as it might be  
 something that can be taken into consideration for DDT development)



I don't use eclipse.  I use netbeans.  For me, it's installing a  
additional language support vs. installing another IDE.  Otherwise, I'd be  
neutral on the subject.

I'm not a huge IDE guy, I just have netbeans installed because they  
support PHP w/ server-side debugging. But I've gotten used to netbeans and  
their editor.  So I would probably feel more comfortable with a netbeans  
version of D than an eclipse version.

As for "why is it better"? I have no clue, I don't use eclipse.  (I  
realize this wasn't addressed at me, but I thought I'd just state my  
opinion or lack thereof)

Don't know if eclipse has this or not, but probably the coolest feature in  
netbeans' editor is the ability to highlight a block of text and "move" it  
around using the keyboard (shift-alt-arrow) and copy it using the keyboard  
(shift-ctrl-arrow).  I find myself trying to do this with other editors  
all the time now.

My biggest pet-peeve with netbeans is when I want to change a value to a  
string literal, I highlight what I want to change, then type a quote to  
start typing the literal, the freaking thing instead just puts quotes  
around the highlighted text (which means I now have to re-highlight the  
text and press delete first).  I've never once *used* this feature, but it  
gets in my way all the time (anyone know how to disable that?).

-Steve
Apr 20 2011
prev sibling next sibling parent spir <denis.spir gmail.com> writes:
On 03/29/2011 01:02 PM, Trass3r wrote:

 Rainer Schuetze wrote:

 I've extracted the website grammar using some combination of scripts
 from the ddoc sources, so if there is interest, I can dig them up...



 Yep, please make them publicly available so they don't get lost.
 Though I think we should have an extra official page with the complete grammar
in addition to the widespread snippets anyway.



Sure, and this grammar should be the actual startpoint of actual parsers, so 
that we know it's correct ;-) (else, it's just some more blowing in the wind)

Denis
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Mar 29 2011
prev sibling parent spir <denis.spir gmail.com> writes:
On 03/30/2011 08:40 AM, Rainer Schuetze wrote:

 What would be an appropriate way to discuss grammar changes?
 I think many things should be simplified/clarified.



 I'd welcome this. I see a few options, but none is currently perfect:

 - in a wiki. both dsource and wiki4d don't seem to have discussion pages,
 though. I'm not sure the comparison tables can be converted to something
 maintainable - it's currently very verbose html.
 - here on the newsgroup. this would probably have the widest audience, but also
 might easily get lost. maybe with keeping track of ideas/results in wiki4d.
 - in bugzilla. this might get spread into multiple entries causing loss of the
 overview of the overall grammar.



I'd vote for wiki + newsgroup. Anyway, if you just put it on a wiki page and 
announce it here, this would probably launch thread that would feed the page 
back, hopefully.

Denis
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