On 3/29/2017 4:16 AM, deadalnix wrote:
I was wondering. When uniitests aren't going to run, it may be desirable to skip
parsing altogether, just lexing and counting braces until the matching closing
brace is found.
Obviously, this means that no error will be found in unittests blocks. That can
contain pretty much anything that lex, so it's even more lax than what's allowed
inside a static if.
Is that an acceptable tradeof ?
One of my longer term goals for DMD is to make it as lazy as possible - only
parse and do semantic analysis if the result is actually needed. Not doing the
parse for unused unittest blocks is a step in that direction.
The code is still required to be correct, but the compiler isn't required to
diagnose it.
