On 2/11/2014 1:00 PM, Brian Rogoff wrote:
Which D metaprogramming (templates, mixins, ctfe, ..) features would be in this
D subset?
All of them.
Would the non-gc'ed functional programming features (downward funargs) be in the
subset?
All of them.
If the answers are "all and yes" I'd be very interested, if "none and no" then
much less interested. Please say more about which features you expect to make
the cut.
Associative arrays would not, as they rely on the GC.
It would require support for COMDATs from the linker, while C does not.
Fortunately, C++ adoption has pretty much driven COMDAT support into all the
linkers that matter.
D-lite, while already used, is the natural name choiec.
Cute names are amusing for a few seconds, but they get old real fast.
As others point out, there's some risk of fragmentation, but there's precedent
even in unsubsettable languages like Ada (SPARK) so I don't think the risk is so
great.
There's also precedent in C itself, as the C Standard codifies the notion of a
"freestanding" implementation of C, although that's not quite what we're talking
about here. Freestanding means no C runtime library, either.
