On 4/3/12, Adam D. Ruppe <[email protected]> wrote: > is kinda fragile in general since it will swallow unrelated > errors too.
That's an issue I've noticed recently. msgpack-d allows me to define a custom serialization routine in my structs/classes, but it has to be a template. Then msgpack tries to instantiate it via __traits(compiles), and if it doesn't work it just skips calling the routine alltogether. So if I have invalid code in my template I'll never know because the external library just swallows the errors. It took me a long time to figure out why my routine wasn't called. I really wish DMD would semantically check templates at least partially even if they're never instantiated.
