Le 10/12/2011 09:52, Piotr Szturmaj a écrit : > Iain Buclaw wrote: >> On 10 December 2011 07:54, Piotr Szturmaj<[email protected]> wrote: >>> Bernard Helyer wrote: >>> >>> >>> On the other side all bug fixes are also passed on to all compilers. >>> Rewriting entire frontend would certainly introduce another set of bugs. >> >> Sure, but that is not an excuse to discourage such development (and we >> could certainly go turtles all the way down with this argument, as all >> bugs created are passed on to all compilers too!) > > Yes, that was Bernard's argument. :) > > I'm not against anything and I wish the best for this project. :) > However, care must be taken to ensure that compilers are compatible. The > number of bugs in DMD bugzilla reminds me how hard it is to implement > such compiler.
It also shows that too few people work on the front-end, no matter how good they are (and I believe Walter undoubtly is one of the world's best compiler experts).
