On 26/10/2010 04:42, Walter Bright wrote:
Rainer Deyke wrote:
On 10/25/2010 19:01, Walter Bright wrote:
Yes, we discussed it before. The Digital Mars C/C++ compiler does this,
and NOBODY CARES.
Not one person in 25 years has ever even commented on it. Nobody
commented on its lack in dmd.
I think someone just did.
Only because clang made a marketing issue out of it. Nobody coming from
dmc++ noticed.
I used to point out this feature in dmc++ to users. Nobody cared, I'd
just get blank looks. Why would I drop it if people wanted it?
Could this be because of some particular bias or idiosyncrasy on the
part of dmc++ users? Any idea what the C++ user community at large would
think of a such a feature, prior to Clang?
I'm trying to think back to days when I used VS C++ 6 and VS C++ 2003,
but I can't remember if the error messages were just line-based, or had
more precision than that.
As for me, I think this functionality is useful, but only significantly
so when integrated into an IDE/editor.
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Bruno Medeiros - Software Engineer
