On Thursday, 12 June 2014 at 20:48:10 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
On Thursday, 12 June 2014 at 17:52:59 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
I very much think the opposite, drawing from many years of
hacking into large codebases. I'm completely with Rob here. On
a large codebase, even the slightest manual or semi-manual
change is painstaking to plan and execute, and almost always
suffers of human errors.
I got convinced a dfix tool would be a strategic component of
D's offering going forward.
It essentially comes down to persistent compiler-as-a-library
issue :( Tools like dscanner can help with some of more simple
transition cases but anything more complicated is likely to
require full semantic analysis.
If only we had such a tool !
