On Wed, 10 Dec 2014 03:00:56 +0000 bitwise via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
> > so let "intellisense-like" systems do the guesswork. i don't > > trust a > > compiler that tries to guess what i mean instead of reporting > > the error > > and stop right there. i.e. i once tried PL/1 compiler which was > > able to > > "guess" what lone `IF` means. and now i don't want the compiler > > to > > do *ANY* guesswork. > > I probably should have started my own thread ;) ah, no, this thread is fine too. ;-) this thread is not strictly about "size_t", it's about inconsistencies and legacies in D. > Anyways, this video is a couple of years old, but this is how > Clang does what I'm talking about, around 16:00 minutes in. > > http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/GoingNative/GoingNative-2012/Clang-Defending-C-from-Murphy-s-Million-Monkeys as i can understand from my limited "english hearing skills" ;-), this is about guessing identifiers, right? another feature i found useless. i even patched my DMD to stop suggesting me that BS, it's so annoying. i want command-line argument to stop DMD doing that!
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