On 8/27/2012 3:34 AM, Artur Skawina wrote:
On 08/27/12 10:24, Walter Bright wrote:
On 8/27/2012 1:10 AM, Manu wrote:
I don't see how the linker enters into it. Default args are irrelevant to the
linker.
Consider name mangling and what it's for. Now consider two *different* types
mangling to the same name.
D fundamentally depends on a 1:1 correspondence between types and name
mangling, not 1:n or n:1.
D or DMD?
D.
Because the relevant bug /was/ an implementation problem.
Which revealed a design problem in the language.
but that's not really an acceptable solution, obviously.
Right, and having a bunch of half-assed solutions is not a good long term
solution. We all know that C++ is full of such, and they've caused endless grief
as subsequent designers try to fix them, and pages and pages of impenetrable
explanations in the C++ spec.
