Re: OpenBSD port of dmd?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 3/16/12 7:45 PM, Daniel Murphy wrote:

You can do that just as well without using an 'else' block.

version(ThisOS)
{
    doItThisWay();
}
else version(ThatOS)
{
    doItThatWay();
}
else version(SomeOS)
{
    doItSlowWay();
}
else version(OtherOS)
{
    doItSlowWay();
}
else
    static assert(0, "OS not implemented");

But why duplicate doItSlowWay(); which may be an arbitrarily long sequence?

This seems to accomplish little more than "well I didn't use else".

Again: what exactly is wrong with specialization?


Andrei