== Quote from Jonathan M Davis (jmdavisp...@gmail.com)'s article > On Saturday 17 July 2010 23:01:28 strtr wrote: > > > > > > Cheated? I thought that you were trying to figure out why the code wasn't > > > d oing > > > what you expected it to be doing. So, of course I ran it. > > > Though, it's more likely that I have an x86 emulator in my brain which > > > can run > > > dmd than that I have a D emulator in my brain if I figured this out in my > > > h ead, > > > since I gave you the exact error message that dmd does. > > > - Jonathan M Davis > > > > I don't find it more likely that you have a x86 emulator in your brain > > which then ran dmd to compile some code. > > I might even think that almost impossible ;P > > If you knew the compiler well enough you might be capable of giving that > > error message with only the extra knowledge of where your files recite and > > version and OS infos. > Well, since both are pretty much impossible, I think that it's a moot point. > I > can believe that someone would know the compiler well enough to know what it > was > going to do in most situations and that they would have some idea as to what > the > error message would be, but if you want them to be at all precise, that just > takes too much detail for anyone to remember. If they could do that, they'd be > an insanely good programmer. > - Jonathan M Davis
The error only needed to be good enough for me to believe it to be generated by a linux compiler ;) I can probably give you satisfying errors for my program. Sure, it is only a fraction of dmd but then again, I'm only a mediocre programmer.
