Francis Nixon wrote:
I have two completely unrelated questions about the dmd source code.
1. What does the mtype.Type.dotExp method do? The documentation comment
says that it "Accesses the members of the object e". I'm not sure exactly
why I would want to do that? Is it for handling types specified using an
identifier/template chain (aka foo.bar!(uint).c)?
types has some built-in properties, like `.length`, `.sizeof`, `.init` and
so on. this method is used to access those properties.
2. I've noticed there are some rather long methods in the dmd source,
involving more than one goto; parse.d is particularly bad. Is there a
reason for this/is it being fixed?
it just was done this way. dmd parser was "evolved", so what you see is a
result of evolution (it is not stopeed yet ;-), and evolution doesn't
produce ideal results. there is no need to specifically "fix" working
things, it doesn't do any good.
