Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 3/26/11 3:01 PM, Don wrote:
David Nadlinger wrote:
On 3/26/11 5:16 PM, Don wrote:
I'm giving CTFE a *major* overhaul right now. I don't know if I'll be
finished in time for the next compiler release, but definitely by the
release after that. Most importantly, bug 1330, which is the root cause
of almost all of the problems, will be fixed. I hope to move CTFE out
the "experimental feature" category.
That's great news – do you plan to put your work in progress up at
GitHub somewhere before the official release?
Yes, definitely. All my fixes go into my fork of dmd on github.
My CTFE work is progressing quite well. Simple test cases like the one
in bug 1330 are working (and all the existing tests still pass, of
course). It will be a while before I publish it to github, though -- the
code is VERY untidy, and lots of stuff isn't implemented yet.
I'm playing around with CTFE quite a bit at the moment and plan to
have a stab at making the basic parts of std.algorithm CTFE-able soon
(Steve, did you find time to look at the Appender issue yet?), so I'd
be glad to test any improvements…
My changes will make a *lot* more things work in CTFE. I recommend
against spending much time making things CTFE-able right now.
This is absolutely awesome. Compile-time evaluation is a key strategic
feature of D. Thank you!
Two questions - do you plan to allow class object creation a la new
Widget?
Eventually. That requires some form of class literal to be created
inside the compiler, so it's a bit more work.
Also, since the upcoming features will be in time for GSoC
projects, could you write a brief documentation project describing the
scope of your improvements?
My plan at this stage is just to overhaul the existing functionality (so
that everything that currently sort-of works or seems to work, actually
DOES work).
