DMD 1.005 release

Walter Bright newshound at digitalmars.com
Wed Feb 7 14:31:50 PST 2007


Ivan Senji wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email) wrote:
>> The ability to transform true code trees will come with D's macro 
>> abilities. But that's a few months ahead at least.
> 
> I can't believe that so many hours have passes since this post and no 
> one has asked for some details?
> 
> Is this something you and Walter talked about? (Because it sounds too 
> good to be true.) What will those macros be like?
> Examples...?

Nothing at the moment but a lot of:

....
<insert magic here>
voila!

Andrei has been mostly hard at work on the const/inout/scope problem. 
The current way D does it is hackish, and Andrei feels (and I agree) 
that bringing rigor to it will make D a considerably stronger language.



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