On Thursday, 13 April 2023 at 01:44:24 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 4/11/2023 7:35 PM, bachmeier wrote:
[...]
It's a seductive idea, and I've considered that (and variations
on it) many times. We have done this, after a fashion, in
having our own versions of the .h files in the form of the
On Tuesday, 11 April 2023 at 21:53:50 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
__Resolving disagreements__
Well that's disappointing. I guess DMD will just continue to
bleed contributors whenever Walter decides to do something that
the entire contributor base that is a very bad idea.
On 4/11/2023 7:35 PM, bachmeier wrote:
Can't the changes to those files by stored in the compiler? Walter obviously
can't change the raw header files, but he can make changes to the files before
they're used by the compiler. If that's not possible, can't a modified set of
header files be
On Tuesday, 11 April 2023 at 21:53:50 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
The language shouldn't support by default making a storage
allocator pure. It's doing its job, saying you can't do this
because you're changing state. So you have to fake it by doing
a dirty cast in there somewhere. The reason why D
On Tuesday, 11 April 2023 at 21:53:50 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
Walter also said that whether void initialization should be
allowed in pure code is a different question. Void initializing
an int and returning it isn't pure, is it? So maybe we should
disallow void initializations in pure code. He
On Tuesday, 11 April 2023 at 21:53:50 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
The monthly meeting for March took place on March 3rd, 2023, at
14:30 UTC, and lasted about an hour and fifteen minutes. The
following people attended:
As before, a great deal of interesting stuff here. Also useful:
with these we
On Tuesday, 11 April 2023 at 21:53:50 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
ImportC was slowly grinding along. His priority was getting all
the standard header files to compile on all the platforms. A
lot of the system `.h` files on the various platforms have made
a feeble attempt to be usable by different
Finally, he asked what everyone thought about including Phobos in the
dmd/druntime mono repository. He said he'd seen no good reason not to
[in the forum thread he'd
started](https://forum.dlang.org/thread/kdgcznersjetunkvo...@forum.dlang.org). Iain said that from his perspective, DRuntime and
The monthly meeting for March took place on March 3rd, 2023, at
14:30 UTC, and lasted about an hour and fifteen minutes. The
following people attended:
* Walter Bright
* Iain Buclaw
* Ali Çehreli
* Martin Kinkelin
* Dennis Korpel
* Mathias Lang
* Átila Neves
* Razvan Nitu
* Mike Parker
*
