Le 25/09/2012 20:05, Jonathan M Davis a écrit :
On Tuesday, September 25, 2012 19:51:42 deadalnix wrote:
Le 25/09/2012 18:38, Jonathan M Davis a écrit :
On Tuesday, September 25, 2012 14:53:17 Manu wrote:
I really need this. Why is it illegal? Is there chance of having this
supported? What are the problems?
I confess that I don't understand why you'd ever need function prototypes,
so clearly one (or both) of us is missing something here.
It can help IDE for instance. Or help the programmer when looking for
references in the source code.
I don't understand this. The IDE can see what functions are there. How would
having a function prototype affect that? It has to look for the real function
regardless, since there's no guarantee that they all have prototypes. The same
goes for the programmer. And if it's a matter of knowing what functions in a
module are publicly available to use, then that's what generated documentation
is for. The only languages that I know of which use prototypes are C and C++,
and folks in other languages get by just fine without them. They only exist in
C/C++ beacuse of its antiquated compilation model. Sure, they could be useful
at times for documentation purposes, but it's code duplication which may or
may not be up-to-date with the actual code, especially when the language is
advanced enough that it doesn't need a function to be declared earlier in the
file than where it's called. And generated documentation or an IDE solves the
problem of getting a list of the functions if that's what you want.
Regardless, Manu seems to have issues related to linking, which is a
completely separate issue and that's what I don't understand.
- Jonathan M Davis
I'm playing devil advocate here, I answered elsewhere that I would be
against such modification of the language.
