On 12/18/12, foobar <f...@bar.com> wrote: > 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.
Adding more front-end features adds more work for maintainers of compilers which are based on the DMD front-end, and not all compilers are based on the DMD front-end. Don't forget the huge gain of using D over C++ to implement the feature.