On 7/19/2015 9:15 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 09:02:03PM -0700, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote:
3. Rethink what "speculative instantiation" of templates means so we
can have a coherent process of compiling them.
For the sake of those of us who aren't so familiar with dmd internals:
what is speculative instantiation and why does matter so much?
It's the basis of static if - does this piece of code compile. It's been a rich
source of bugs because if the compilation fails, it can leave the state of the
compiler in an indeterminate state.
5. Get rid of reliance on the global error count. This has been mostly
done, it just hast to be finished.
Does this involve cleaning up the handling of error-gagging too?
Yes.
6. Convert the back end to D as well.
Will a D backend still be under the same license encumbrances as the
current one?
Yes. Mere translation would not change the license.
But I view the backend license encumbrance as more of a theoretical issue than a
practical one - the license is extremely permissive. There isn't that much more
to it than agreeing to not sue Symantec.
