On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:54 AM, grauzone<n...@example.net> wrote: > Jarrett Billingsley wrote: >> >> For two, NO. Disallowing forward references sucks. It's entirely >> possible to implement a compiler that resolves forward refs correctly. >> If W doesn't want to do it, that's on him. > > I agree; but: I'm just saying that disallowing it would actually be better > for the programmer, than leaving it half-broken.
Then let's drop every buggy feature. :P The best solution would be to *fix it*, or *make a new compiler that works right.*