On 02/11/12 09:07, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 2012-11-01 23:51, Walter Bright wrote:
What about all your feature requests? I think you've made more than
anyone, by a factor of 10 at least!
:-)
As for Manu's request
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=8108
I've gone over with him why he needs it, and there's no other reasonable
way. He needs it for real code in a real application.
This is quite interesting. Manu comes in from basically nowhere and
fairly quickly manage to convince Walter to implement at least two
feature requests, this one and the SIMD support. I'm not saying that
they shouldn't have been implemented.
He just knows how to convince Walter.
(Hint: use real-world use cases. Arguments from theoretical computer
science carry almost no weight with Walter).
> Although I think something like
AST macros could possible solve issue 8108 and a whole bunch of other
features, a few already present in the language.
Yes, and they could cure cancer. "AST macros" can do anything, because
they are completely undefined. Without even a vague proposal, it seems
like a rather meaningless term.
