On Tuesday, 27 November 2012 at 19:07:41 UTC, David Nadlinger
wrote:
On Tuesday, 27 November 2012 at 18:38:57 UTC, Eldar
Insafutdinov wrote:
I also believe that it is possible to introduce these changes
in an iterative manner. Each step will provide significant
improvements to the language. If everybody agrees that this
proposed change is worth exploring into and has chances to be
included in D, I am willing to commit my time to implement it.
I think the main question is: How many breaking changes to the
*language* will it introduce? Unless I'm missing something,
there should not be to many besides some template matching
special cases (alias T vs. T, ...), so I think this would in
theory have good changes of making it in. However, this all
depends on Walter being willing to accept such a change to the
compiler anyway.
David
At some point the compiler really should be built entirely in D,
perhaps that would be the time for fixing and simplifying a ton
of things.
--rt
