On 01/07/2013 07:27 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
On 1/6/2013 7:27 PM, Timon Gehr wrote:
I am still reducing the massive breakage
introduced by 2.061 regressions.
Sorry about that,
No problem. There will be some way to get it to compile. The reduced
code shows which points to concentrate modification on. I have quite a
few workarounds for forward reference errors in my code already.
but 2.061 has been available for 2 months in beta.
I think this is a valid point, but coincidentally, I have not been
working on the code base for the past 2 months.
We fixed all but 3 of the reported regressions, and had good reasons for
deferring those.
I am sure that very good progress is being made. However, the forward
reference error problem will need formal treatment at some point. I
think one reason they pop up is that symbol lookup for the intended
language is inherently impossible to compute.
In fact, the 2.062 work in progress release is currently up on the site.
Great!
The remark was not intended as a critique of DMD's development process,
rather I was attempting to support the point that for language design
issues, implementation details are of secondary importance.
