On 08/01/2012 12:38 PM, bearophile wrote:
Regan Heath:
Indeed. IIRC Walter's rationale on things like this has always been
that they belong in 3rd party tools.
Walter is not always right.
It's why the DMD front end is available for use, so people can create
tools like this, syntax highlighters, re-formatters, dependency tree
diagrams, or... you name it.
Detecting unused variables is a core feature,
No. This mustn't be part of the language.
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=7989
it belongs in the
compiler, like compile-time array bound tests and other errors currently
detected by DMD. This allows everyone to use it with minimum work, so
everyone enjoys it, and it requires less work to be implemented because
the compiler already does lot of analysis.
It is not an error. Making things that are not errors illegal is prone
to introduce bugs into code using __traits(compiles).
This can be a warning at best.
