DMD 0.166 release

[Oskar Linde]

BCS wrote:

> Oskar Linde wrote:
>> Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>>"Kirk McDonald" <kirklin.mcdonald at gmail.com> wrote in message
>>>news:ed7ddg$6r2$1 at digitaldaemon.com...
>>>
>>>
>>>>Nice. I'll have to play with the improved IFTI support.
>>>>
>>>
>>>Hm.  I missed this new feature.  What does it include?  There's not even
>>>a link to a conversation, and I don't remember any threads about this.
>> 
>> 
>> It is really just a small patch that enables implicit function template
>> instantiation for member function and operator templates. It should work
>> identically to how IFTI works for free functions.
>> 
>> It should open up quite a few door. Here is a quick demo I hacked
>> together of how compile time dimensionality checking can be implemented:
>> 
>> http://www.csc.kth.se/~ol/physical.d
>> 
>> /Oskar
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
> Hot, Dog!!!
> 
> 
> This is a project I was hoping to get to a LONG time ago. (The d code
> side, not the getting-D-to-do-this side)
> 
> 
> Best I came up with was a Runtime version.
> 
> http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~shro8822/unit.d
> 
> Mind if I try to graft in a "few" ;) more units and some unittest?

Certainly not. Feel free to go ahead. :)

But as I said, this is just a quick hack. Some improvements would be a
generic Quantity supporting an arbitrary number of dimensions and rational
exponents.

/Oskar