On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Bartosz Milewski <bartosz-nos...@relisoft.com> wrote: > Walter Bright Wrote: > >> BCS wrote: >> > would you agree that it is not something the programer can predict in >> > advance? >> >> He can, but it is not reasonable to expect him to. But it's still >> deterministic. > > I've been following this discussion about determinism and I think it > addresses the problem from the wrong point of view, that of a specific > implementation. > > My concern is the semantics of the language. As it is defined right now, a > conforming implementation is free to use a quantum random number generator to > decide whether to re-allocate or not. Is it likely? I don't think so; but the > non-determinism is part of the semantics of D arrays.
Then why not just fix the spec to say the behavior has to be deterministic? --bb
