Extrawurst wrote:
Hi i just want to discuss two points about D version statements.
1) Why is it not possible to negate the condition of a version
statement. I think it is unintuitive and keeps me writing weird
statements like:
version(Win32){}else{version = NotWin32;}
The idea is that versions should be positive statements, not some complex
formulation from other versions. The latter is commonplace in C, and in my
experience nearly always wrong.
For example, NotWin32 is, what? It's a bug waiting to happen. The preferred way
is:
version (Win32)
...
else version (linux)
...
else
static assert(0, "unsupported system");
2) I would really like the idea to be able to get a compiletime string
of version identifiers in some kind of way. Perhaps even an array of
version-strings.
I don't know what that means.
