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Steven Schveighoffer <schveiguy@gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Steven Schveighoffer <schveiguy@gmail.com> ---
Note: if some comparison is to be done, it should remove all whitespace as well (spacing is actually something that does get changed)

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--- Comment #2 from Andrei Alexandrescu <andrei@erdani.com> ---
Yah, ideally normalization would be in some canonical format that is the same for all styles of coding.

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moonlightsentinel@disroot.org changed:

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--- Comment #3 from moonlightsentinel@disroot.org ---
Why should this be included in the compiler instead of being a seperate project using libdparse?

See e.g. the test extractor used by the `publictests` target for druntime/phobos.

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--- Comment #4 from Andrei Alexandrescu <andrei@erdani.com> ---
(In reply to moonlightsentinel from comment #3)
> Why should this be included in the compiler instead of being a seperate project using libdparse?
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> See e.g. the test extractor used by the `publictests` target for druntime/phobos.

A syntactic tool would be incomplete but probably still useful. It won't be able to do much with mixin-generated code.

As with other tools (dependency detection/management) the conclusion is that only the compiler has access to all information needed.

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Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw@gdcproject.org> changed:

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