DMD 1.005 release

Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email) SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Wed Feb 7 16:30:52 PST 2007


Walter Bright wrote:
> 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!

That's pretty much what I had in mind :o).

Actually, I did post about that in a thread in the digitalmars.d group. 
Search for the title "Idea : Expression Type".

> 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.

There's good progress on that!


Andrei



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