Re: [OT] Clang seems to implement modules

2012-11-18 Thread Peter Alexander
On Saturday, 17 November 2012 at 11:03:18 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: I just read the slides of a talk from that latest LLVM Developers' Meeting. It's a talk about modules by Doug Gregor from Apple. It seems that they already have started to implement this new feature in Clang. It's about

Re: [OT] Clang seems to implement modules

2012-11-18 Thread Paulo Pinto
Am 18.11.2012 18:51, schrieb Peter Alexander: On Saturday, 17 November 2012 at 11:03:18 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: I just read the slides of a talk from that latest LLVM Developers' Meeting. It's a talk about modules by Doug Gregor from Apple. It seems that they already have started to

Re: [OT] Clang seems to implement modules

2012-11-18 Thread Walter Bright
On 11/18/2012 12:17 PM, Paulo Pinto wrote: I really don't understand why no one added modules to C and C++, taking into consideration that the other systems programming languages of the time already had them. There was a proposal to add modules to C++11, but it failed to gather much interest.

Re: [OT] Clang seems to implement modules

2012-11-18 Thread Jonathan M Davis
On Sunday, November 18, 2012 12:53:59 Walter Bright wrote: There was a proposal to add modules to C++11, but it failed to gather much interest. Honestly, it's the sort of thing that I would have thought wouldn't even be possible in C++, because it would require too much of a redesign and would

Re: [OT] Clang seems to implement modules

2012-11-18 Thread Peter Alexander
On Sunday, 18 November 2012 at 21:21:12 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: Also, I think that so many C/C++ devs are so used to the compile times that they get with them that it's nowhere near the top of the list of features that they want. It probably didn't even occur to many of them. Not to

Re: [OT] Clang seems to implement modules

2012-11-18 Thread Walter Bright
On 11/18/2012 1:20 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote: Honestly, it's the sort of thing that I would have thought wouldn't even be possible in C++, I haven't read the proposal, but it is feasible.