DMD 0.163 release

Hasan Aljudy hasan.aljudy at gmail.com
Tue Jul 18 15:08:02 PDT 2006



Walter Bright wrote:
> 
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/changelog.html
> 
> This has all the new import changes in it. That breaks a lot of existing 
> code (like dmdscript), the fixes are simple (adding more import 
> declarations) but tedious.
> 
> I couldn't find a better keyword choice than "static import".
> 
> The renaming uses '=' instead of 'as', 'from', or 'alias' for the reasons:
> 
> 1) didn't want to add new keywords, especially ones like 'as' as I use 
> that as a variable name
> 
> 2) didn't need to add new keywords - adding them should be done only if 
> using punctuation is completely unappealing
> 
> 3) using '=' and ':' is visually more distinct than embedded keywords.

Thanks, I'm trying this new sutff out!

P.S.
I just noticed a "bug" on the website: I'm using IE7 (Beta 3) and the 
download link on the top doesn't work unless I point the mouse at the 
top edge of the "box".



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