On Monday, 31 October 2016 at 20:45:56 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
The "reserved" words I'm referring to are not necessarily
keywords in the language but otherwise words that should be
avoided, especially for defining methods in aggregates. I'm
mostly thinking of built-in properties like .init,
On Tuesday, November 01, 2016 08:29:17 Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
> On 2016-10-31 23:25, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> > IMHO, it's just plain error-prone to allow for any of the built-in
> > properties to be overridden, and it should be disallowed in all cases.
> > We
On 2016-10-31 23:25, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d wrote:
IMHO, it's just plain error-prone to allow for any of the built-in
properties to be overridden, and it should be disallowed in all cases. We
need to be able to rely on stuff like .init of .sizeof being the built-in
property, or
On Monday, 31 October 2016 at 20:45:56 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
In the latest release of DMD (2.072.0) TypeInfo.init has been
deprecate in favor of TypeInfo.initializer. That would not have
been needed if .init wasn't a built-in property but instead a
compiler recognized function.
at least
On Monday, 31 October 2016 at 20:45:56 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
The "reserved" words I'm referring to are not necessarily
keywords in the language but otherwise words that should be
avoided, especially for defining methods in aggregates. I'm
mostly thinking of built-in properties like .init,
On Monday, October 31, 2016 22:22:00 Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 2016-10-31 21:53, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> > The plan is to deprecate .init as an overridable method or field, and
> > then remove support (i.e. .init ALWAYS refers to the compile-generated
> > init instance).
On 2016-10-31 21:53, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
The plan is to deprecate .init as an overridable method or field, and
then remove support (i.e. .init ALWAYS refers to the compile-generated
init instance). First step is for Phobos/druntime to eradicate all uses
of it.
I suspected this was the
On 10/31/16 4:45 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
In the latest release of DMD (2.072.0) TypeInfo.init has been deprecate
in favor of TypeInfo.initializer. That would not have been needed if
..init wasn't a built-in property but instead a compiler recognized
function.
Thoughts? Too late to change, to
The "reserved" words I'm referring to are not necessarily keywords in
the language but otherwise words that should be avoided, especially for
defining methods in aggregates. I'm mostly thinking of built-in
properties like .init, .classinfo, .sizeof, .outer and so on.
All of the above can be
