On Thursday, 17 December 2015 at 04:26:04 UTC, Shriramana Sharma
wrote:
Sorry but I don't get this fully: can't a hyphen be part of
such mangled names?
I'm actually not sure but I have never seen it done.
And any reflection of the module name would also be just a
string which need not be a
On Tuesday, 15 December 2015 at 03:31:18 UTC, Shriramana Sharma
wrote:
I expect it should not be difficult for the compiler to see
that this D file is not a module being imported by anything
else or even being compiled to a library which would need to be
later imported. In which case, why does
On 12/16/2015 08:26 PM, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
> can't a hyphen be part of such mangled names?
Perhaps my response is naive but hyphen means subtraction (or minus). If
the grammar is context-free then it cannot appear in a name, no?
Ali
Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> It still has a module name that can be used in reflection, must
> be used in name disambiguation (at the linker level if nothing
> else, any functions are mangled with the module name so they
> don't conflict with C functions with the same name), and other
> things.
Sorry
On 2015-12-17 05:26, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
Sorry but I don't get this fully: can't a hyphen be part of such mangled
names? Aren't they just strings that the linker hashes or something? (My
knowledge of compiler/executable internals is limited.)
I'm not sure about a hyphen but a dollar sign
On Tuesday, 15 December 2015 at 03:31:18 UTC, Shriramana Sharma
wrote:
For instance, hyphens are often used as part of executable
names on Linux, but if I do this:
$ dmd usage-printer.d
I get the following error:
usage-printer.d: Error: module usage-printer has non-identifier
characters
On Tuesday, 15 December 2015 at 03:31:18 UTC, Shriramana Sharma
wrote:
I understand that module names need to be valid identifiers in
that other modules would need to import them. But when a file
is intended to be just an executable, why is it mandatory to
give it a module declaration with a
I understand that module names need to be valid identifiers in that other
modules would need to import them. But when a file is intended to be just an
executable, why is it mandatory to give it a module declaration with a valid
identifier?
For instance, hyphens are often used as part of
