On 01/21/2013 07:09 PM, monarch_dodra wrote:
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.
That does not answer the question.
