On 2/13/11, Alan Smithee <em...@example.com> wrote: > Andrej Mitrovic Wrote: > >> Could you elaborate on that? Aren't .di files supposed to be auto- > generated by the compiler, and not hand-written? > > Yea, aren't they? How come no one uses that feature? Perhaps it's > intrinsically broken? *hint hint* > > > This NG assumes a curious stance. Sprouting claims and standing by > them until they're shown invalid, and then some. This is not the way > to go for a new language. It's YOUR job (not yours in particular, > Andrej) to demonstrate the feasibility of a certain feature, ONLY > THEN can you claim how it may solve any issues. And it needs to be > more than a 10-line Hello World. Because you can concatenate Hello > World 1,000,000 times, D can work for multi million line projects, > right? > > "But it takes time!" ... uh, yea, how's for 11 years? Or at least 4 > which D has been past the 1.0 version. How many people gave up on > their med/large projects and moved to "lesser" languages in this > span? >
On 2/13/11, em...@example.com <em...@example.com> wrote: > Andrej Mitrovic Wrote: > >> Could you elaborate on that? Aren't .di files supposed to be auto- > generated by the compiler, and not hand-written? > > Yea, aren't they? How come no one uses that feature? Perhaps it's > intrinsically broken? *hint hint* > > > This NG assumes a curious stance. Sprouting claims and standing by > them until they're shown invalid, and then some. This is not the way > to go for a new language. It's YOUR job (not yours in particular, > Andrej) to demonstrate the feasibility of a certain feature, ONLY > THEN can you claim how it may solve any issues. And it needs to be > more than a 10-line Hello World. Because you can concatenate Hello > World 1,000,000 times, D can work for multi million line projects, > right? > > "But it takes time!" ... uh, yea, how's for 11 years? Or at least 4 > which D has been past the 1.0 version. How many people gave up on > their med/large projects and moved to "lesser" languages in this > span? > Heh. :) I'm not claiming that I know that everything works, I only know as much as I've tried. When I've hit a bug in a multi-thousand line project I'll report it to bugzilla. So what's broken about generating import modules, is it already in bugzilla? I've only heard about problems with templates so far, so I don't know. If they're really broken we can push Walter & Co. to fix them. I know of a technique, too. I've heard posting a random comment on a D reddit thread about a D bug usually gets Andrei to talk with Walter in private ASAP and fix it right away.