On 9/4/2016 2:36 PM, Timon Gehr wrote:
Declare-call ordering issues for overload sets are not limited to local scopes.
This problem needs to be solved anyway. The fact that the scope is local adds
exactly zero additional complications.
I know that static if brings with it ordering problems. That's not a
justification for adding them to statements.
Besides, I showed a method of how the overloads could be done with the
existing language.
That's not the point. What's perhaps more telling is that you initially got it
wrong. It /wants/ to be valid code.
Maybe, but if I redesigned the language for every mistake I made, nothing would
get done.
My point with all this is ADL-workalike behavior can be reasonably done with
existing D core features available *now* in all 3 compilers. It means we don't
have to panic and rewrite the compiler right now - Manu can use these techniques
and get his work done, even though it isn't quite what he envisions. He's not
dead in the water.
