On Sunday, 2 December 2012 at 22:19:18 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
On Sunday, December 02, 2012 23:04:29 Dan wrote:
What about the specification is lax? pure, const, and immutable
are quite well
defined.
Sorry - by specification I was not thinking D Language
Specification but more API or library specification. More
accurately I should have said lax signatures.
The problem here is that it's stuff in druntime that needs to
be fixed
which very few people can do, and it often runs into other
problems which
makes making any of the changes incredibly difficult. For
instance, to fix the
current AA implementation requires a ton of work, because it
affects all kinds
of stuff all over the place in druntime, so the result is that
none of it is
getting fixed right now, which obviously isn't good.
Fair enough.
Some of this stuff is getting fixed incrementally, but it's
definitely taking
longer than would be desirable, and while some of it may be low
hanging fruit,
a lot of it really isn't because of how much stuff is affected.
Small changes
quickly become huge ones when dealing with druntime changes -
especially with
stuff like pure, const, and nothrow.
