On Friday, 23 June 2017 at 04:03:04 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Friday, 23 June 2017 at 02:49:27 UTC, Mike wrote:
My approaches are right now for -betterC to be a filthy hack to
get it working quick, and I still have a bunch of ways I want
to improve the implementation and compiler interface
On Friday, 23 June 2017 at 02:49:27 UTC, Mike wrote:
I'm not sure what you have in mind, but TypeInfo in itself is
not bad and has some very useful features even for resource
constrained devices and other niche domains.
Yeah, I agree with you.
My approaches are right now for -betterC to be a
On Friday, 23 June 2017 at 02:14:08 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
Yes, it is necessary, but how much? Can we do it with
implicitly generated library code?
I'm pretty sure the answer is "not much" and "yes", but I still
need to ponder the details. I think the typeinfo for a class
good enough for
On Friday, 23 June 2017 at 00:41:11 UTC, sarn wrote:
Does it matter? C++ programmers already accept that RTTI is
needed for certain dynamic features.
Yes, it is necessary, but how much? Can we do it with implicitly
generated library code?
I'm pretty sure the answer is "not much" and "yes",
Currently a lot of language features generate dependencies on
TypeInfo, arguably more than needed, but this is changing. Some
examples are in this DConf 2017 talk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=endKC3fDxqs
Also, the way the language is designed right now, all modules are
responsible for
On Thursday, 22 June 2017 at 14:50:45 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
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I appreciate the reply.
On Thursday, 22 June 2017 at 14:30:31 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
I was looking through the C++ standard library headers and
noticed that has a typeid also. One difference with
D is that it is opt-in as there is some cost using it.
C++ also leaves most the properties for typeinfo to be
I should preface this by saying I don't really have a good sense
of how either BetterC or the D runtime work.
The recent BetterC thread made me wonder about TypeInfo in the D
runtime. My (surface level) understanding is that this is what
makes typeid work at run time.
I was looking through
