Hi bearophile,
you've just cheered me up :-) I'll proceed doing my best to get closer to
this language.
By the way, if it's not difficult for you, could you please clarify the
following:
1) what did you mean by "far worse bugs" :-) just several examples
2) Andrei Alexandrescu wrote in his book that it's possible to make
non-final methods of interfaces private, and then override them in derived
classes. There are even examples in his book that demonstrate this. At the
same time, current DMD documentation pretty clear says that nothing
private can be overridden.
Best regards,
Sergey.
On Mon, 04 Oct 2010 14:03:14 +0300, bearophile <bearophileh...@lycos.com>
wrote:
Sergey:
But such serious bugs that are not fixed yet can disgust any
programmer, I think.
That's a mild bug :-) You can live with it, until it's fixed. There are
far worse bugs in DMD now. You can't ask the implementation of a new
language to be bug-free. Especially a language that has grown so quickly.
All the more beginning programmers, like me. Probably D2 implementation
is
not grown-up enough yet to be used in projects of a real importance...
It's a bootstrap situation: bug get found and fixed while people write
larger and larger programs, and people are able to write larger programs
because bugs get fixed. At the moment is wrong to use D2 for
live-or-death situations, for systems where reliability is critical. But
as it gets debugged more and more the scope of its usability will grow.
D is designed to eventually be a reliable language, more than C :-)
Bye,
bearophile
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