bearophile wrote:
This is one of the last dmd changes:
http://www.dsource.org/projects/dmd/changeset/557
cent/ucent are probably easy to implement, their implementation can
require little code on 64 bit systems, and operations done among them
are probably fast on 64 bit systems.
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Whether it's implemented any time soon or not, I'd like the "feature"
whereby trying to use cent/ucent is a _syntax_ error to be finally
removed. In the current state of things, making code forward compatible
is a nightmare, and the later it's left the less backward compatible any
code using cent/ucent can expect to be.
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=785
Unfortunately it's now too late for libraries targeting D 1.0 to make
use of it. But still, would it make sense to drop the fix into D1,
given that there is still work to do on the spec anyway?
Stewart.
