On Friday, 15 January 2021 at 19:40:11 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Friday, 15 January 2021 at 19:18:09 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
I plan to use dparse for the most part, not only to convert
but also to detect non bootstrapable code or missing features.
Ah, smart. I've been thinking about using an existing d-parser
to convert unit tests from D to my Dex syntax (experimental
project). Modifying the compiler is fun, but writing unit tests
is not...
This is a noble reason. Styx has no such motivations. It is
simpler than D1 for example and has no killer feature,
What made D1 attractive to many C++ programmers was that it was
stripped down. Also, many language designers get tempted to add
many features that are hollow, then they regret it and rip it
all out again (lots of wasted effort and source code). So,
being very restrictive and patient is a good thing, I believe.
The truly good ideas takes time to "grow" (in ones mind).
just 3 or 4 creative things are
- optional break/continue expression
- explicit overloads
- DotExpression aliases (they have been proposed to DMD this
summer when I worked "under cover" as Nils.)
- pointers to member function is very different from what I
have seen so far (no fat pointer)
"Nils" is a very scandinavian name? :-)
Yeah, in addition to my real name, I've been invovled in dmd as
"Nils Lankila" and "Stian Gulpen" which are names generated using
specialized services. You can choose to have a swedish name for
example.
