I've attached a quick hacked Doxygen preprocessor that turns D into
something a little closer to C++.  It removes contracts, puts a public:
at the start of classes, fixes up templates, and replaces "}" with "};".
  It's not well-tested and there'll be code it messes up on, and it is
very, very slow.  All those problems will be fixed once I switch to a
tokeniser.

I've also attached a Doxyfile that can be used as a base, little tweaks to get the output to behave better.

Attached the rewrite that should be about a dozen times faster.  It now transforms delegates into function pointers (non-recursively, so a delegate which takes a delegate as an argument will still appear as a delegate, but that shouldn't modify documentation).  instance is now transformed into a typedef.  What's missing is:

- handling of debug and version statements.
- handling of public/private/protected/static blocks (as in "public {
... }") and public/private/protected applied to single methods, which
Doxygen doesn't handle for some reason.

Sorry if I'm asking stupid, but what exactly is the point? What you said (below) suggests it may be some syntax "desugarator", but I guess nobody uses D for the syntactical differences alone. How about e.g. arrays (and strings)?

OTOH, that Doxygen file suggests something much more
powerful, I only don't get the big picture, I think I need some
more info.

Thanks,
Sab

"Burton Radons" <loth@users.sourceforge.net> wrote in message news:as3ji1$1419$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> I've attached a quick hacked Doxygen preprocessor that turns D into
> something a little closer to C++.  It removes contracts, puts a public:
> at the start of classes, fixes up templates, and replaces "}" with "};".
>   It's not well-tested and there'll be code it messes up on, and it is
> very, very slow.  All those problems will be fixed once I switch to a
> tokeniser.


"Burton Radons" <loth@users.sourceforge.net> wrote in message news:as3uk2$1fab$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Attached the rewrite that should be about a dozen times faster.  It now transforms delegates into function pointers (non-recursively, so a delegate which takes a delegate as an argument will still appear as a delegate, but that shouldn't modify documentation).  instance is now transformed into a typedef.  What's missing is:
>
> - handling of debug and version statements.
> - handling of public/private/protected/static blocks (as in "public {
> ... }") and public/private/protected applied to single methods, which
> Doxygen doesn't handle for some reason.

Doxygen is a automatic documentation generator for C++ and other languages.  The preprocessor is to render the code into something that doxygen can make more sense of, so that it can generate more useful documentation.  It has nothing to do with making the syntax more C++-like for coding purpose.

Evan


Sab wrote:
> Sorry if I'm asking stupid, but what exactly is the point?
> What you said (below) suggests it may be some syntax
> "desugarator", but I guess nobody uses D for the syntactical
> differences alone. How about e.g. arrays (and strings)?
> 
> OTOH, that Doxygen file suggests something much more
> powerful, I only don't get the big picture, I think I need some
> more info.
> 
> Thanks,
> Sab
> 
> "Burton Radons" <loth@users.sourceforge.net> wrote in message
> news:as3ji1$1419$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> 
>>I've attached a quick hacked Doxygen preprocessor that turns D into
>>something a little closer to C++.  It removes contracts, puts a public:
>>at the start of classes, fixes up templates, and replaces "}" with "};".
>>  It's not well-tested and there'll be code it messes up on, and it is
>>very, very slow.  All those problems will be fixed once I switch to a
>>tokeniser.
> 
> 
> 
> "Burton Radons" <loth@users.sourceforge.net> wrote in message
> news:as3uk2$1fab$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> 
>>Attached the rewrite that should be about a dozen times faster.  It now
>>transforms delegates into function pointers (non-recursively, so a
>>delegate which takes a delegate as an argument will still appear as a
>>delegate, but that shouldn't modify documentation).  instance is now
>>transformed into a typedef.  What's missing is:
>>
>>- handling of debug and version statements.
>>- handling of public/private/protected/static blocks (as in "public {
>>... }") and public/private/protected applied to single methods, which
>>Doxygen doesn't handle for some reason.
> 
> 
> 
> 

> Doxygen is a automatic documentation generator for C++ and other

Ah, I see, thanks a lot! (I thought the preprocessor was
called Doxygen... :) )

Sab