On Tuesday, 18 December 2012 at 00:48:40 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
Wow, I think that's exactly what we could use! It serves
multiple optional use
cases all at once!
Was there a technical reason for you not getting around
towards implementing, or
just a lack of time?
There always seemed something more important to be doing, and
Andrei thought it would be better to put such a capability in
rdmd rather than dmd.
This is inconsistent with D's design - providing useful features
built-in (docs generator, testing, profiling, etc).
More over, it breaks encapsulation. This means the compiler
exposes an inferior format that will later be wrapped around by a
more capable packaging format, thus exposing the implementation
details and adding an external dependency on that inferior
format. Besides, the other compilers merge in the same front-end
code so they'll gain the same feature anyway. There's no gain in
separating it out to rdmd.
The main question is if you approve the concept and willing to
put it on the to-do list? I'm sure that if you endorse this
feature someone else will come in and implement it.
