On Monday, 21 January 2013 at 17:56:05 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 05:32:12PM +0100, monarch_dodra wrote:
The only thing holding me back from D is that it is
unreliable. I'm
not just talking about bugs in Phobos (which can easilly found
and/or
fixed).
I'm talking about all the unreliable voldemort structs, the
context
pointers, the delegates, the destructor sequences, memory
management
and whatnot.
Oh? What's so unreliable about delegates? I find that they work
quite
well in general.
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I've stayed away from them mostly, so I may be unfair, but I'm
mostly thinking about delegates that reference external data via
context pointers.
Come to think about it, everything I dislike about about D always
boils down to "context pointer". That thing is so scary unsafe,
and can so easily back fire on you :(
I don't have the hindsight yet to be allowed to declare it was a
terrible idea, but that's what I'm thinking right now.
Heck, I'm kind of wishing we had a compiler switch to ban and/or
warn on such usage. Or at least, make them explicit opt-ins for
crying out loud.
