On 9/19/2014 7:04 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
On Saturday, 20 September 2014 at 01:19:05 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
Having a compiler switch to change the behavior of every module in
incompatible ways would be a disastrous balkanization.
Don't -version, -debug etc. have this problem anyway?
I submit that it is a poor practice to write code that way.
Anyway, if you change the name mangling, then you'll get link errors instead of
mysterious crashes.
It has to be done in such a way that the ARC and the existing exceptions can
coexist.
How?
Good question. It's a challenge. But it has to be done, or D will divide in half
and both halves will fail.
We've had this discussion numerous times before - "throw the magic compiler
switch" and D becomes an ARC system and everything is wonderful. It cannot work.
ARC and GC are not equivalent.
