On Tuesday, 5 March 2013 at 12:01:54 UTC, eles wrote:
On Monday, 4 March 2013 at 06:18:35 UTC, Manu wrote:
+1_000_000_000
Yes please!
It's near impossible to get a brief overview of a class at a
glance in D!
Exactly for this reason, what about make this way at least the
recommended way, if not the single one?
What is to lose? As about what to win, basically each .d file
will carry its .di file (class definition) inside it, and the
latter can be easily extracted (both visually and
automatically).
Just one note: please allow that the private variables of a
class (those that are not exposed outside the file) be
declarable outside the main definition of the class, that is
with the . syntax. This will completely make declaration and
implementation independent, to the point that the class
definition is an interface and nothing else.
This is what I'd like to see happen with modules which seems to
be in agreement with what you are proposing: The module source
file should contain everything needed to automatically generate
and maintain a .di file. There should no need to manually
maintain a .di file.
How we accomplish that goal is an implementation detail, however
I fully agree that something needs to be done and it should be
done without any need to manually maintain separate .di files.
--rt
