I've started to make some minor mods to the DMD parser to tailor it to my own taste, but there is no reason to do double work, even if experimental. So I wonder which patches are available or in the works by others?

I'm currently working on the following mods (not thoroughly tested yet):

in : templatename‹params›
out: templatename!(params)

in : templatename«params»
out: templatename!"params"

in : a := expr
out: auto a = expr

in : a :== expr
out: immutable a = expr

And plan to continue with:

in :  √x+y
out:  sqrt(x) + y

in :  a•b
out:  a.opInner(b) // dot product, maybe some other name?

in :  #arr;
out:  arr.length //or perhaps something more generic?

What are you working on and what patches do you have?

What kind of syntactical sugar do you feel is missing in D?

On Monday, 8 September 2014 at 08:51:10 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
> I've started to make some minor mods to the DMD parser to tailor it to my own taste, but there is no reason to do double work, even if experimental. So I wonder which patches are available or in the works by others?
>
> I'm currently working on the following mods (not thoroughly tested yet):
>
> in : templatename‹params›
> out: templatename!(params)
>
> in : templatename«params»
> out: templatename!"params"
>
> in : a := expr
> out: auto a = expr
>
> in : a :== expr
> out: immutable a = expr
>
> And plan to continue with:
>
> in :  √x+y
> out:  sqrt(x) + y
>
> in :  a•b
> out:  a.opInner(b) // dot product, maybe some other name?
>
> in :  #arr;
> out:  arr.length //or perhaps something more generic?
>
> What are you working on and what patches do you have?
>
> What kind of syntactical sugar do you feel is missing in D?

You really do hate portability, don't you?

On Monday, 8 September 2014 at 08:51:10 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
> I've started to make some minor mods to the DMD parser to tailor it to my own taste, but there is no reason to do double work, even if experimental. So I wonder which patches are available or in the works by others?
>
> I'm currently working on the following mods (not thoroughly tested yet):
>
> ...

Good list of changes I'd love to never see the public exposures to prevent even smallest chance someone will actually use it :P

On Monday, 8 September 2014 at 09:23:42 UTC, Idan Arye wrote:
> You really do hate portability, don't you?

I didn't ask about hatred. I asked about what is available so I don't replicate the efforts of others.

Besides, it is fully portable since it is compiling to the same AST (as of today).

On Monday, 8 September 2014 at 09:26:23 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> Good list of changes I'd love to never see the public exposures to prevent even smallest chance someone will actually use it :P

Good for you, but please answer the question…?

"Ola Fosheim Grøstad" " wrote in message news:adjmadefxvblysylyvto@forum.dlang.org...

> I've started to make some minor mods to the DMD parser to tailor it to my own taste, but there is no reason to do double work, even if experimental. So I wonder which patches are available or in the works by others?

Attempting to fork D's syntax is harmful to D.  Please stop. 

On Mon, 08 Sep 2014 08:51:09 +0000
via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:

> What are you working on and what patches do you have?
lexer:
* stop validating UTF-8 in comments
* native-encoded strings (n"...")

parser:
* foreach (auto n; ...)
* foreach (auto; ...)
* foreach (; ...)
* lambdas: (auto, auto) => ...
* @pure, @nothrow
* safe, trusted (w/o '@')
* "kill-the-commas"
* "kill-c-arrays"
* @virtual (yes, i remember the discussion, but i NEED a way to revert
  "final:"!) semiworking
* @nonstatic (for the same reason as @virtual) semiworking
* planing: @gc and @throw (for the same reason again)
* ...and maybe generic [@]!... (!final, !static, @!nogc and so on)

now i'm trying to dive into semantic parts of the compiler to increase area of wreckage.

On Mon, 08 Sep 2014 08:51:09 +0000
via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:

> in :  #arr;
> out:  arr.length //or perhaps something more generic?
why not '$arr'? '$' is already established for 'length'.

On Mon, 8 Sep 2014 19:37:22 +1000
Daniel Murphy via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:

> Attempting to fork D's syntax is harmful to D.  Please stop.
it's easy: just close the code. this will effectively stop people who want to experiment.

On Monday, 8 September 2014 at 09:31:06 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
> On Monday, 8 September 2014 at 09:26:23 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
>> Good list of changes I'd love to never see the public exposures to prevent even smallest chance someone will actually use it :P
>
> Good for you, but please answer the question…?

I submit all changes, even experimental ones, as pull request. If it is not good / widely useful enough to have a change of being accepted upstream I won't even bother thinking about design, not even speaking about keeping local patches.

And if at some point I will want to create my own language I'll definitely use something other than DMD as a base.