Rainer Deyke wrote:
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What makes this case particularly bad is that Walter deliberate chose to
limit the power of the 'version' construct in order to prevent overly
complex read-only code.
Actually, AIUI it's just one of many things he did to eliminate the
syntactic fragility that C++ has a lot of, thereby making code
manipulation tools work better.
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/overview.html
"It's time to step back, look at what the preprocessor is used for, and
design support for those capabilities directly into the language."
Naturally, putting these capabilities into the language has to be done
one step at a time.
Stewart.
