On 2011-05-23 00:09, Matthew Ong wrote: > On 5/21/2011 7:16 PM, Russel Winder wrote: > > On Sat, 2011-05-21 at 04:35 -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > > [ . . . ] > > > >> Subversion handles multiple people editing the same file perfectly fine. > >> But Hg probably is better than SVN, overall. I've been a happy SVN user > >> for a long time, but even I'm starting to get won over by Hg. Of > >> course, some people like Git better than Hg (and some people like Hg > >> better than Git). > > > > And there is also Bazaar. > > overall this method of D file layout is because of ability to use some > sort of Source Control and not because of D cannot compile??? > > Funny...But going to be hard sell to management level people from the QA > side that does not do coding.
You must work at a fairly odd place if management and the QA people even care whether multiple people edit a file simultaneously. C, C++, and many other languages allow you to put pretty much anything you want in a file and allow you to organize your code however you like. The fact that Java restricts you to a single public class per file is quite abnormal. Sure, if you use a source control system which is poor enough that it won't allow multiple people to edit a file simultaneously, then having a lot of code in a single file could be a problem, but people have worked with horrible source control systems like Visual Source Safe which had such restrictions and still used languages like C and C++ with them. So, even if your SC software sucks, you can use D with it just fine. It's just more pleasant when your SC software doesn't suck. D is organized the way it is because it makes sense. D was designed by C and C++ programmers who found it perfectly normal to split up files however you wanted to. But D improves over C and C++ immensely by using a proper module system rather than textual inclusion. I really don't understand why you're hung up on this idea that you need to only have one person working on a module at a time and think that the fact that the programming language doesn't enforce that you can't have more than one public class per file is a bad thing. Most languages and programming environments just don't work that way. - Jonathan M Davis
