On Wednesday, 18 April 2012 at 10:02:49 UTC, Robert Clipsham
wrote:
On 18/04/2012 09:18, "Erèbe" wrote:
Hi,
I recently discovered that D support file interface .di, but
through my
past reads I never seen someone using it. The std don't do
usage of it
(compile time issue maybe ?) and most of D project are in the
same case.
Is this feature depreceated ?
I'm from a C++ background, I agree on the fact that keeping
declarations
and implementaions sync across two files is tedious, but when
I have to
read code, I like a clean interface to summarize the thing.
Dmd doc is there to replace the need of an clean interface ?
You can find a list of deprecated features here:
http://dlang.org/deprecate
.di files are not deprecated, just rarely used. This is for a
few reasons:
* There is no requirement to use them
* They severely limit the capabilities of CTFE
(http://dlang.org/function#interpretation)
* DMD is really fast - the speed gain from using .di files
isn't noticeable for a lot of projects
* If you want them, they're very easy to generate yourself
(use the -Dd and -Df compiler switches)
* For the purposes of reading APIs, DDoc is normally used -
alternatively, all good editors and IDEs provide code folding
to hide implementations
Thanks, CTFE is a good argument for me
