On Sunday, 4 October 2015 at 01:26:53 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
Memory safety means no memory corruption is possible.
Therefore, there can be no undefined behavior in @safe code.
Overflowing an int is undefined behavior, but it is not memory
corruption.
Overflowing an int is defined behavi
On 10/3/2015 12:49 PM, deadalnix wrote:
On Saturday, 3 October 2015 at 19:43:13 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 10/3/2015 8:43 AM, Timon Gehr wrote:
There are also some other, more minor issues. For example, when the language
specification speaks about "memory safety", it is really unclear what th
On Saturday, 3 October 2015 at 19:43:13 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 10/3/2015 8:43 AM, Timon Gehr wrote:
There are also some other, more minor issues. For example,
when the language
specification speaks about "memory safety", it is really
unclear what this
means, as the language designers seem
On 10/3/2015 8:43 AM, Timon Gehr wrote:
There are also some other, more minor issues. For example, when the language
specification speaks about "memory safety", it is really unclear what this
means, as the language designers seem to think it that it is fine to have
undefined behaviour in a sectio
On 10/03/2015 12:45 PM, Abdulhaq wrote:
Perhaps the answer to this is obvious, but what's harder to write from
scratch - a C++ compiler or a D compiler? :-)
We know Walter wrote a C++ compiler single handedly, does anyone else
recall the C++ Grandmaster qualification, the free course where
parti
On Saturday, 3 October 2015 at 10:45:29 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote:
Perhaps the answer to this is obvious, but what's harder to
write from scratch - a C++ compiler or a D compiler? :-)
I suspect writing a C++ compiler would be more difficult, unless
you takes some shortcuts.
The language's grammar is
Perhaps the answer to this is obvious, but what's harder to write
from scratch - a C++ compiler or a D compiler? :-)
We know Walter wrote a C++ compiler single handedly, does anyone
else recall the C++ Grandmaster qualification, the free course
where participants get to write a complete C++ co
